Frances Polidori
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Frances Polidori was the Italian-English mother of Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a member of the culturally influential Rossetti-Polidori family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frances Polidori canonical | 5 |
| Polidori | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1623752 — 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: Frances Polidori Context triple: [Dante Gabriel Rossetti, mother, Frances Polidori]
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A.
Lady Byron
Lady Byron, born Annabella Milbanke, was a British aristocrat and mathematician best known as the wife of poet Lord Byron and the mother of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace.
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B.
Anna Seward
Anna Seward was an 18th-century English poet and letter-writer, often called the "Swan of Lichfield," known for her literary salons, Romantic verse, and wide correspondence with leading intellectuals of her time.
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C.
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb was a British aristocrat and novelist best known for her scandalous affair with Lord Byron and her Gothic novel "Glenarvon."
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D.
Annabella Milbanke
Annabella Milbanke, later Lady Byron, was an English aristocrat and mathematician best known as the wife of poet Lord Byron and the mother of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace.
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E.
Thomas de Quincey
Thomas de Quincey was a 19th-century English essayist and literary critic best known for his autobiographical work "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater."
- 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: Frances Polidori Target entity description: Frances Polidori was the Italian-English mother of Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a member of the culturally influential Rossetti-Polidori family.
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A.
Lady Byron
Lady Byron, born Annabella Milbanke, was a British aristocrat and mathematician best known as the wife of poet Lord Byron and the mother of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace.
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B.
Anna Seward
Anna Seward was an 18th-century English poet and letter-writer, often called the "Swan of Lichfield," known for her literary salons, Romantic verse, and wide correspondence with leading intellectuals of her time.
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C.
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb was a British aristocrat and novelist best known for her scandalous affair with Lord Byron and her Gothic novel "Glenarvon."
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D.
Annabella Milbanke
Annabella Milbanke, later Lady Byron, was an English aristocrat and mathematician best known as the wife of poet Lord Byron and the mother of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace.
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E.
Thomas de Quincey
Thomas de Quincey was a 19th-century English essayist and literary critic best known for his autobiographical work "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mother ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
English
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Italian ⓘ |
| familyName |
Frances Polidori
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Polidori
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| givenName | Frances ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
English
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ |
| memberOf | Rossetti-Polidori family ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Christina Rossetti
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti ⓘ Maria Francesca Rossetti ⓘ William Michael Rossetti ⓘ |
| name | Frances Polidori self-link ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Polidori family
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Rossetti-Polidori family ⓘ
surface form:
Rossetti family
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| notableFor |
being part of the culturally influential Rossetti-Polidori family
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being the mother of Dante Gabriel Rossetti ⓘ |
| relative |
Christina Rossetti
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti ⓘ Gabriele Rossetti ⓘ John Polidori ⓘ
surface form:
John William Polidori
Maria Francesca Rossetti ⓘ William Michael Rossetti ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Gabriele Rossetti ⓘ |
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: Frances Polidori Description of subject: Frances Polidori was the Italian-English mother of Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a member of the culturally influential Rossetti-Polidori family.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Polidori