Ann Thompson Gerry
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Ann Thompson Gerry was the wife of American statesman and fifth U.S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry and a prominent figure in early American political society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ann Thompson Gerry canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2266326 — 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 Thompson Gerry Context triple: [Elbridge Gerry, spouse, Ann Thompson Gerry]
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A.
Richard Jennings
Richard Jennings was an English politician and landowner of the 17th century, best known as the father of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough and a figure connected to the court of Charles II.
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B.
Jean Saltonstall
Jean Saltonstall was a member of a prominent Boston Brahmin family and the first wife of journalist and longtime Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee.
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C.
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison was the First Lady of the United States in 1841 as the wife of President William Henry Harrison and is noted for never having lived in the White House during his brief term.
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D.
William Caswell
William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
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E.
Carr Bowers McClenny
Carr Bowers McClenny was a prominent local figure and landowner after whom the city of Macclenny, Florida, was named.
- 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 Thompson Gerry Target entity description: Ann Thompson Gerry was the wife of American statesman and fifth U.S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry and a prominent figure in early American political society.
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A.
Richard Jennings
Richard Jennings was an English politician and landowner of the 17th century, best known as the father of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough and a figure connected to the court of Charles II.
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B.
Jean Saltonstall
Jean Saltonstall was a member of a prominent Boston Brahmin family and the first wife of journalist and longtime Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee.
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C.
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison was the First Lady of the United States in 1841 as the wife of President William Henry Harrison and is noted for never having lived in the White House during his brief term.
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D.
William Caswell
William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
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E.
Carr Bowers McClenny
Carr Bowers McClenny was a prominent local figure and landowner after whom the city of Macclenny, Florida, was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
political spouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Democratic-Republican Party ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | early American Republic ⓘ |
| familyName | Gerry ⓘ |
| givenName | Ann ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married to Elbridge Gerry ⓘ |
| name | Ann Thompson Gerry self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of Elbridge Gerry
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role in early American political society ⓘ |
| notableSpouse | Elbridge Gerry ⓘ |
| occupation | political hostess ⓘ |
| politicalSphere | early American political society ⓘ |
| relative | Elbridge Gerry ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| socialRole | prominent figure in early American political society ⓘ |
| spouse | Elbridge Gerry ⓘ |
| spouseOffice | fifth Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
| spouseOfPositionHolder | Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
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 Thompson Gerry Description of subject: Ann Thompson Gerry was the wife of American statesman and fifth U.S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry and a prominent figure in early American political society.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.