Ann Austerlitz (mother)
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Ann Austerlitz was the mother of American dancer and entertainer Adele Astaire (and thus part of the family background of the famous Astaire siblings).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ann Austerlitz (mother) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2031309 — 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: Ann Austerlitz (mother) Context triple: [Adele Astaire, hasRelative, Ann Austerlitz (mother)]
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A.
Norma Ziegler (mother)
Norma Ziegler was the mother of American actress Karen Black.
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B.
Bertha Alva Hess
Bertha Alva Hess was the wife of American businessman and retail magnate James Cash (J. C.) Penney.
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C.
Henrietta Schultz
Henrietta Schultz was the wife of Norwegian-American meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes, a pioneering figure in modern weather forecasting and climate science.
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D.
Louisa Wanda Strentzel
Louisa Wanda Strentzel was the wife of naturalist John Muir and the daughter of prominent California horticulturist Dr. John Strentzel, helping manage the family’s fruit ranch in Martinez, California.
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E.
Truida Pohl
Truida Pohl was the wife of prominent Afrikaans poet and intellectual N. P. van Wyk Louw.
- 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: Ann Austerlitz (mother) Target entity description: Ann Austerlitz was the mother of American dancer and entertainer Adele Astaire (and thus part of the family background of the famous Astaire siblings).
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A.
Norma Ziegler (mother)
Norma Ziegler was the mother of American actress Karen Black.
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B.
Bertha Alva Hess
Bertha Alva Hess was the wife of American businessman and retail magnate James Cash (J. C.) Penney.
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C.
Henrietta Schultz
Henrietta Schultz was the wife of Norwegian-American meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes, a pioneering figure in modern weather forecasting and climate science.
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D.
Louisa Wanda Strentzel
Louisa Wanda Strentzel was the wife of naturalist John Muir and the daughter of prominent California horticulturist Dr. John Strentzel, helping manage the family’s fruit ranch in Martinez, California.
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E.
Truida Pohl
Truida Pohl was the wife of prominent Afrikaans poet and intellectual N. P. van Wyk Louw.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Austerlitz ⓘ |
| hasRoleInFamily | mother ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Adele Astaire
ⓘ
Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember |
Adele Astaire
ⓘ
Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| partOf | Astaire family background ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Ann Austerlitz (mother) Description of subject: Ann Austerlitz was the mother of American dancer and entertainer Adele Astaire (and thus part of the family background of the famous Astaire siblings).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.