Ellen Zinsser McCloy
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Ellen Zinsser McCloy was the wife of influential American lawyer and statesman John J. McCloy, who played major roles in U.S. and international policy in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ellen Zinsser McCloy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1767264 — 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: Ellen Zinsser McCloy Context triple: [John J. McCloy, spouse, Ellen Zinsser McCloy]
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A.
Ethel Gross
Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Marion Post Wolcott
Marion Post Wolcott was an American documentary photographer best known for her poignant images of rural poverty and everyday life in the United States during the Great Depression.
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C.
Anne Spencer Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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D.
Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
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E.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
- 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: Ellen Zinsser McCloy Target entity description: Ellen Zinsser McCloy was the wife of influential American lawyer and statesman John J. McCloy, who played major roles in U.S. and international policy in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Ethel Gross
Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Marion Post Wolcott
Marion Post Wolcott was an American documentary photographer best known for her poignant images of rural poverty and everyday life in the United States during the Great Depression.
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C.
Anne Spencer Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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D.
Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
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E.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
human
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spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | McCloy ⓘ |
| givenName | Ellen ⓘ |
| name | Ellen Zinsser McCloy self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of American lawyer and statesman John J. McCloy ⓘ |
| relative | John J. McCloy ⓘ |
| spouse | John J. McCloy ⓘ |
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: Ellen Zinsser McCloy Description of subject: Ellen Zinsser McCloy was the wife of influential American lawyer and statesman John J. McCloy, who played major roles in U.S. and international policy in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.