Polly Adams
E35938
Polly Adams is the daughter of the late British author Douglas Adams, famed creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polly Adams canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T44799 — 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: Polly Adams Context triple: [Douglas Adams, hasChild, Polly Adams]
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A.
Marla Maples
Marla Maples is an American actress and television personality best known for her high-profile marriage to businessman and future U.S. President Donald Trump in the 1990s.
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B.
Constance Casey
Constance Casey is an American writer and journalist known for her essays and columns, and she is married to Nobel Prize–winning scientist Harold Varmus.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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E.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
- 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: Polly Adams Target entity description: Polly Adams is the daughter of the late British author Douglas Adams, famed creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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A.
Marla Maples
Marla Maples is an American actress and television personality best known for her high-profile marriage to businessman and future U.S. President Donald Trump in the 1990s.
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B.
Constance Casey
Constance Casey is an American writer and journalist known for her essays and columns, and she is married to Nobel Prize–winning scientist Harold Varmus.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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E.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ person ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| child | Polly Adams self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-03-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2001-05-11 ⓘ |
| father | Douglas Adams ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Jane Belson ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember |
Douglas Adams
ⓘ
Jane Belson ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the daughter of Douglas Adams ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ |
| occupation |
humorist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ scriptwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Cambridge, England
ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridge
|
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Jane Belson ⓘ |
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: Polly Adams Description of subject: Polly Adams is the daughter of the late British author Douglas Adams, famed creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Douglas Adams