Isabella Niven Wilder
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Isabella Niven Wilder was the mother of American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder, playing a formative role in his early life and education.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Isabella Niven Wilder canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2676889 — 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: Isabella Niven Wilder Context triple: [Thornton Wilder, mother, Isabella Niven Wilder]
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A.
Doris Sawyer
Doris Sawyer was the wife of senior Royal Air Force commander Trafford Leigh-Mallory, associated with his career during the Second World War.
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B.
Caroline Meriwether Goodlett
Caroline Meriwether Goodlett was a prominent Southern civic leader and organizer best known as a co-founder and early leader of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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C.
Amy March
Amy March is the youngest of the four March sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Women," known for her artistic ambitions, vanity, and eventual maturation into a poised and compassionate woman.
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D.
Jo March
Jo March is the fiercely independent, imaginative, and strong-willed second March sister who dreams of becoming a writer in Louisa May Alcott’s classic story "Little Women."
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E.
Pollyanna Whittier
Pollyanna Whittier is the optimistic young heroine of Eleanor H. Porter's novel "Pollyanna," known for her unwavering positivity and the "Glad Game" philosophy.
- 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: Isabella Niven Wilder Target entity description: Isabella Niven Wilder was the mother of American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder, playing a formative role in his early life and education.
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A.
Doris Sawyer
Doris Sawyer was the wife of senior Royal Air Force commander Trafford Leigh-Mallory, associated with his career during the Second World War.
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B.
Caroline Meriwether Goodlett
Caroline Meriwether Goodlett was a prominent Southern civic leader and organizer best known as a co-founder and early leader of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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C.
Amy March
Amy March is the youngest of the four March sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Women," known for her artistic ambitions, vanity, and eventual maturation into a poised and compassionate woman.
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D.
Jo March
Jo March is the fiercely independent, imaginative, and strong-willed second March sister who dreams of becoming a writer in Louisa May Alcott’s classic story "Little Women."
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E.
Pollyanna Whittier
Pollyanna Whittier is the optimistic young heroine of Eleanor H. Porter's novel "Pollyanna," known for her unwavering positivity and the "Glad Game" philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Wilder ⓘ |
| givenName | Isabella ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Amos Niven Wilder
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Charlotte Wilder ⓘ Isabel Wilder ⓘ Janet Wilder Dakin ⓘ Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Niven ⓘ |
| hasRole | formative influence on Thornton Wilder’s education ⓘ |
| influenced | Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Amos Niven Wilder
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Amos Parker Wilder ⓘ Charlotte Wilder ⓘ Isabel Wilder ⓘ Janet Wilder Dakin ⓘ Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
| notableWork | Formative influence on the early life and education of Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| residence |
Berkeley
ⓘ
surface form:
Berkeley, California
China ⓘ Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Madison, Wisconsin, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Madison, Wisconsin
New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ Oberlin, Ohio ⓘ |
| spouse | Amos Parker 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: Isabella Niven Wilder Description of subject: Isabella Niven Wilder was the mother of American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder, playing a formative role in his early life and education.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.