Alice Howe Gibbens
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Alice Howe Gibbens was an American schoolteacher and social reformer best known as the wife and intellectual partner of philosopher and psychologist William James.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alice Howe Gibbens canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1489091 — 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: Alice Howe Gibbens Context triple: [William James, spouse, Alice Howe Gibbens]
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A.
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell was the mother of American poet and critic James Russell Lowell and a member of the prominent Lowell family of New England.
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B.
Laura E. Richards
Laura E. Richards was an American author of children’s literature and biographies, known for works such as her Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe.
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C.
Edith Scott Bagley
Edith Scott Bagley was an American educator and the younger sister of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, known for her work in education and support of the civil rights movement.
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D.
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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E.
Elsie Clews Parsons
Elsie Clews Parsons was an influential American anthropologist and folklorist known for her pioneering work on Native American and African American cultures and for advancing feminist and progressive social ideas in the early 20th century.
- 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: Alice Howe Gibbens Target entity description: Alice Howe Gibbens was an American schoolteacher and social reformer best known as the wife and intellectual partner of philosopher and psychologist William James.
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A.
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell was the mother of American poet and critic James Russell Lowell and a member of the prominent Lowell family of New England.
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B.
Laura E. Richards
Laura E. Richards was an American author of children’s literature and biographies, known for works such as her Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe.
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C.
Edith Scott Bagley
Edith Scott Bagley was an American educator and the younger sister of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, known for her work in education and support of the civil rights movement.
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D.
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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E.
Elsie Clews Parsons
Elsie Clews Parsons was an influential American anthropologist and folklorist known for her pioneering work on Native American and African American cultures and for advancing feminist and progressive social ideas in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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schoolteacher ⓘ social reformer ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Harvard University ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
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social reform ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| movement | social reform ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the intellectual partner of William James
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being the wife of William James ⓘ |
| notableRole |
participation in late 19th-century American social reform circles
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supporting William James’s philosophical and psychological work ⓘ |
| occupation |
schoolteacher
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social reformer ⓘ |
| partnerInIntellectualWorkWith | William James ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
New England ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
Alice James
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Henry James ⓘ Henry James Sr. ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | William James ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Alice Howe Gibbens Description of subject: Alice Howe Gibbens was an American schoolteacher and social reformer best known as the wife and intellectual partner of philosopher and psychologist William James.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.