Nanette Lederer Calder
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Nanette Lederer Calder was an American artist and sculptor known for her work in decorative arts and as the wife of sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder and mother of renowned sculptor Alexander Calder.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nanette Lederer Calder canonical | 3 |
| Nanette Lederer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1768462 — 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: Nanette Lederer Calder Context triple: [Alexander Stirling Calder, spouse, Nanette Lederer Calder]
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A.
Lucille Warner Reyburn
Lucille Warner Reyburn was the wife of acclaimed American film director Frank Capra.
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B.
Muriel McBrien Kauffman
Muriel McBrien Kauffman was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support for culture and the performing arts left a lasting legacy in Kansas City.
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C.
Esther Bubley
Esther Bubley was an American documentary photographer best known for her intimate, human-centered images of everyday life in mid-20th-century America, particularly during and after World War II.
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D.
Blanche Knopf
Blanche Knopf was an influential American publisher and co-founder of the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, known for championing modernist and international literature.
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E.
Ethel Gross
Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 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: Nanette Lederer Calder Target entity description: Nanette Lederer Calder was an American artist and sculptor known for her work in decorative arts and as the wife of sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder and mother of renowned sculptor Alexander Calder.
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A.
Lucille Warner Reyburn
Lucille Warner Reyburn was the wife of acclaimed American film director Frank Capra.
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B.
Muriel McBrien Kauffman
Muriel McBrien Kauffman was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support for culture and the performing arts left a lasting legacy in Kansas City.
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C.
Esther Bubley
Esther Bubley was an American documentary photographer best known for her intimate, human-centered images of everyday life in mid-20th-century America, particularly during and after World War II.
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D.
Blanche Knopf
Blanche Knopf was an influential American publisher and co-founder of the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, known for championing modernist and international literature.
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E.
Ethel Gross
Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
ⓘ
person ⓘ sculptor ⓘ |
| birthName |
Nanette Lederer Calder
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Nanette Lederer
|
| child | Alexander Calder ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Calder ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | decorative arts ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
decorative art
ⓘ
sculpture ⓘ |
| givenName | Nanette ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Alexander Calder
ⓘ
Alexander Stirling Calder ⓘ |
| mother | Nanette Lederer Calder self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Calder family ⓘ |
| notableRole |
mother of sculptor Alexander Calder
ⓘ
wife of sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder ⓘ |
| notableWork | decorative art works ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
sculptor ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alexander Stirling Calder
ⓘ
Nanette Lederer Calder self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Nanette Lederer Calder Description of subject: Nanette Lederer Calder was an American artist and sculptor known for her work in decorative arts and as the wife of sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder and mother of renowned sculptor Alexander Calder.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alexander Stirling Calder
subject surface form:
Alexander Calder
this entity surface form:
Nanette Lederer