Susan Mary Hornby
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Susan Mary Hornby was a British aristocrat best known as the first wife of John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, the 11th Duke of Marlborough.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Susan Mary Hornby canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1616577 — 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: Susan Mary Hornby Context triple: [John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, spouse, Susan Mary Hornby]
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A.
Dorothy Yorke
Dorothy Yorke was the wife of Thomas Dudley, a prominent early colonial leader and multiple-term governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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B.
Harriet Eckersall
Harriet Eckersall was the wife of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus.
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C.
Helen Coombe
Helen Coombe was a British artist associated with the early 20th-century Bloomsbury circle and the first wife of art critic and painter Roger Fry.
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D.
Helen Melland
Helen Melland was the wife of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the English upper-middle class in the late 19th century.
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E.
Elizabeth Minshull
Elizabeth Minshull was the third wife and later-life caretaker of the English poet John Milton, whom she married in 1663.
- 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: Susan Mary Hornby Target entity description: Susan Mary Hornby was a British aristocrat best known as the first wife of John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, the 11th Duke of Marlborough.
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A.
Dorothy Yorke
Dorothy Yorke was the wife of Thomas Dudley, a prominent early colonial leader and multiple-term governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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B.
Harriet Eckersall
Harriet Eckersall was the wife of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus.
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C.
Helen Coombe
Helen Coombe was a British artist associated with the early 20th-century Bloomsbury circle and the first wife of art critic and painter Roger Fry.
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D.
Helen Melland
Helen Melland was the wife of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the English upper-middle class in the late 19th century.
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E.
Elizabeth Minshull
Elizabeth Minshull was the third wife and later-life caretaker of the English poet John Milton, whom she married in 1663.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British aristocrat
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Hornby family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Duchess of Marlborough ⓘ |
| residence | Blenheim Palace ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough ⓘ |
| title | Duchess of Marlborough ⓘ |
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: Susan Mary Hornby Description of subject: Susan Mary Hornby was a British aristocrat best known as the first wife of John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, the 11th Duke of Marlborough.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
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spouse
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Susan Mary Hornby
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subject surface form:
Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough