Adelaide Lister
E174764
Adelaide Lister was the wife of British statesman John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adelaide Lister canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T511694 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Adelaide Lister Context triple: [John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, spouse, Adelaide Lister]
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A.
Flora Hewlett
Flora Hewlett was a philanthropist whose legacy is honored through the naming of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major charitable organization.
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B.
Mary Georgina Newton
Mary Georgina Newton was the wife of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford and a supportive partner throughout his scientific career.
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C.
Maria Jane Burnley Hume
Maria Jane Burnley Hume was the daughter of British civil servant, political reformer, and ornithologist Allan Octavian Hume.
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D.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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E.
Julia Biggs
Julia Biggs is the warm, devoted church wife and mother at the heart of the film "The Preacher's Wife," portrayed by Whitney Houston.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Adelaide Lister Target entity description: Adelaide Lister was the wife of British statesman John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.
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A.
Flora Hewlett
Flora Hewlett was a philanthropist whose legacy is honored through the naming of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major charitable organization.
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B.
Mary Georgina Newton
Mary Georgina Newton was the wife of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford and a supportive partner throughout his scientific career.
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C.
Maria Jane Burnley Hume
Maria Jane Burnley Hume was the daughter of British civil servant, political reformer, and ornithologist Allan Octavian Hume.
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D.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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E.
Julia Biggs
Julia Biggs is the warm, devoted church wife and mother at the heart of the film "The Preacher's Wife," portrayed by Whitney Houston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| name | Adelaide Lister ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouse |
British statesman
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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spousePositionHeld |
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
surface form:
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Adelaide Lister Description of subject: Adelaide Lister was the wife of British statesman John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell