Elspeth Thomson
E273222
Elspeth Thomson was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elspeth Thomson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1258079 — 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: Elspeth Thomson Context triple: [Kenneth Grahame, spouse, Elspeth Thomson]
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A.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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B.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
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C.
Katharine Tait
Katharine Tait is a British writer and teacher best known as the daughter of philosopher Bertrand Russell and for her memoir about growing up in his unconventional, secular household.
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D.
Katherine Thomson
Katherine Thomson is an Australian screenwriter and playwright known for her work on film, television, and stage, including the documentary "Women He's Undressed."
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E.
Jane Innes
Jane Innes was the wife of British statesman Thomas Pitt, connecting her to a prominent political and mercantile family in 18th-century 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: Elspeth Thomson Target entity description: Elspeth Thomson was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
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A.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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B.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
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C.
Katharine Tait
Katharine Tait is a British writer and teacher best known as the daughter of philosopher Bertrand Russell and for her memoir about growing up in his unconventional, secular household.
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D.
Katherine Thomson
Katherine Thomson is an Australian screenwriter and playwright known for her work on film, television, and stage, including the documentary "Women He's Undressed."
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E.
Jane Innes
Jane Innes was the wife of British statesman Thomas Pitt, connecting her to a prominent political and mercantile family in 18th-century Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame ⓘ |
| spouse | Kenneth Grahame ⓘ |
| spouseCountryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouseNotableWork | The Wind in the Willows ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
children’s author
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writer ⓘ |
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: Elspeth Thomson Description of subject: Elspeth Thomson was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.