Isabel Wilder
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Isabel Wilder was an American writer and literary executor best known for managing and promoting the works and legacy of her brother, playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isabel Wilder canonical | 5 |
| Isabella Niven Wilder | 2 |
| Isabella Wilder | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2676884 — 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: Isabel Wilder Context triple: [Thornton Wilder, sibling, Isabel Wilder]
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A.
Isabel Bradley
Isabel Bradley is a central character in the 1946 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge," known as a sophisticated, ambitious socialite whose choices profoundly affect the protagonist's spiritual journey.
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B.
Emily St. Aubert
Emily St. Aubert is the virtuous, sensitive young heroine of Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Mysteries of Udolpho," known for her resilience amid terror, loss, and romantic trials.
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C.
Esther Drummond
Esther Drummond is a CIA analyst who becomes a key member of the Torchwood team in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
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D.
Isabella Whitehead
Isabella Whitehead was the wife of Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales and leader of the First Fleet to Australia.
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E.
Isabella Harris
Isabella Harris was the mother of pioneering British surgeon and antiseptic surgery innovator Joseph Lister.
- 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: Isabel Wilder Target entity description: Isabel Wilder was an American writer and literary executor best known for managing and promoting the works and legacy of her brother, playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder.
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A.
Isabel Bradley
Isabel Bradley is a central character in the 1946 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge," known as a sophisticated, ambitious socialite whose choices profoundly affect the protagonist's spiritual journey.
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B.
Emily St. Aubert
Emily St. Aubert is the virtuous, sensitive young heroine of Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Mysteries of Udolpho," known for her resilience amid terror, loss, and romantic trials.
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C.
Esther Drummond
Esther Drummond is a CIA analyst who becomes a key member of the Torchwood team in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
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D.
Isabella Whitehead
Isabella Whitehead was the wife of Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales and leader of the First Fleet to Australia.
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E.
Isabella Harris
Isabella Harris was the mother of pioneering British surgeon and antiseptic surgery innovator Joseph Lister.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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literary executor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literary estate management
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literature ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical writing
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literary non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
managing the literary estate of Thornton Wilder
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preserving the legacy of Thornton Wilder ⓘ promoting the works of Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
| notableRole | literary executor of Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
| occupation |
literary executor
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writer ⓘ |
| relative | Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling | Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
| workSubject | Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
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: Isabel Wilder Description of subject: Isabel Wilder was an American writer and literary executor best known for managing and promoting the works and legacy of her brother, playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Isabella Wilder
this entity surface form:
Isabella Niven Wilder
this entity surface form:
Isabella Niven Wilder