Lili Elbe
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Lili Elbe was a Danish transgender woman and pioneering recipient of early gender confirmation surgeries, whose life and transition inspired the novel and film "The Danish Girl."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lili Elbe canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3292045 — 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: Lili Elbe Context triple: [The Danish Girl, mainSubject, Lili Elbe]
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A.
Regina Jonas
Regina Jonas was the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi, a pioneering figure in 20th-century German Reform Judaism and a symbol of both religious innovation and Holocaust-era persecution.
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B.
Hermine Andermann
Hermine Andermann was the mother of Austrian-American mathematician Karl Menger.
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C.
Lida Gustava Heymann
Lida Gustava Heymann was a prominent German feminist, pacifist, and suffragist who played a key role in the international women’s peace movement in the early 20th century.
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D.
Blanka Jellinek
Blanka Jellinek was a member of the Jellinek family, historically associated with the early development and naming of the Mercedes automobile brand.
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E.
Jeanne Clémence Weil
Jeanne Clémence Weil was a French Jewish bourgeois woman best known as the cultured and devoted mother of novelist Marcel Proust, whose influence deeply shaped his life and work.
- 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: Lili Elbe Target entity description: Lili Elbe was a Danish transgender woman and pioneering recipient of early gender confirmation surgeries, whose life and transition inspired the novel and film "The Danish Girl."
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A.
Regina Jonas
Regina Jonas was the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi, a pioneering figure in 20th-century German Reform Judaism and a symbol of both religious innovation and Holocaust-era persecution.
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B.
Hermine Andermann
Hermine Andermann was the mother of Austrian-American mathematician Karl Menger.
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C.
Lida Gustava Heymann
Lida Gustava Heymann was a prominent German feminist, pacifist, and suffragist who played a key role in the international women’s peace movement in the early 20th century.
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D.
Blanka Jellinek
Blanka Jellinek was a member of the Jellinek family, historically associated with the early development and naming of the Mercedes automobile brand.
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E.
Jeanne Clémence Weil
Jeanne Clémence Weil was a French Jewish bourgeois woman best known as the cultured and devoted mother of novelist Marcel Proust, whose influence deeply shaped his life and work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
pioneer of gender confirmation surgery ⓘ transgender woman ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1882-12-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Denmark
ⓘ
Vejle ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from surgery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Denmark ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1931-09-13 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Dresden
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Elbe ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | art ⓘ |
| genderIdentity | woman ⓘ |
| givenName |
Lilli
ⓘ
surface form:
Lili
|
| hasGenre | LGBT history ⓘ |
| hasReference |
Danish civil records
ⓘ
contemporary newspaper reports ⓘ |
| influenced | public awareness of transgender people ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
Man into Woman
ⓘ
The Danish Girl ⓘ
surface form:
The Danish Girl (film)
The Danish Girl ⓘ
surface form:
The Danish Girl (novel)
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | Danish ⓘ |
| legalGenderRecognition | 1930 ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1930 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1904 ⓘ |
| nameAtBirth | Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener ⓘ |
| nationality | Danish ⓘ |
| notableEvent | public revelation of transition in 1930 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first known recipients of gender confirmation surgery
ⓘ
early transgender history ⓘ |
| occupation | painter ⓘ |
| partOf | history of transgender medicine ⓘ |
| performedBy | Magnus Hirschfeld-associated physicians ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Eddie Redmayne ⓘ |
| residence |
Copenhagen
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | attracted to men ⓘ |
| spouse | Gerda Wegener ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
illustrator
ⓘ
painter ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Man into Woman ⓘ |
| surgeryLocation | Dresden ⓘ |
| underwentProcedure |
orchiectomy
ⓘ
ovary transplant ⓘ penectomy ⓘ uterus transplant ⓘ vaginoplasty ⓘ |
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: Lili Elbe Description of subject: Lili Elbe was a Danish transgender woman and pioneering recipient of early gender confirmation surgeries, whose life and transition inspired the novel and film "The Danish Girl."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.