Phoebe Ann Desha
E370187
Phoebe Ann Desha was the mother of American socialite Alva Erskine Vanderbilt, who became a prominent figure in New York's Gilded Age high society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phoebe Ann Desha canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3579724 — 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: Phoebe Ann Desha Context triple: [Alva Erskine Vanderbilt, parent, Phoebe Ann Desha]
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A.
Phoebe Bayard
Phoebe Bayard was the wife of Arthur St. Clair, a prominent American Revolutionary War general and early governor of the Northwest Territory.
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B.
Josephine Hull
Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles, including her Oscar-winning performance in "Harvey."
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C.
Julia Floyd
Julia Floyd was the wife of British statesman Sir Robert Peel, serving as a prominent Victorian-era political hostess and member of the English gentry.
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D.
Phoebe A. Bass
Phoebe A. Bass was the wife of Hiram Revels, the first African American U.S. senator and a prominent Reconstruction-era political and religious leader.
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E.
Mary Ann Bertles
Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
- 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: Phoebe Ann Desha Target entity description: Phoebe Ann Desha was the mother of American socialite Alva Erskine Vanderbilt, who became a prominent figure in New York's Gilded Age high society.
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A.
Phoebe Bayard
Phoebe Bayard was the wife of Arthur St. Clair, a prominent American Revolutionary War general and early governor of the Northwest Territory.
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B.
Josephine Hull
Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles, including her Oscar-winning performance in "Harvey."
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C.
Julia Floyd
Julia Floyd was the wife of British statesman Sir Robert Peel, serving as a prominent Victorian-era political hostess and member of the English gentry.
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D.
Phoebe A. Bass
Phoebe A. Bass was the wife of Hiram Revels, the first African American U.S. senator and a prominent Reconstruction-era political and religious leader.
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E.
Mary Ann Bertles
Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mother ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gilded Age high society in New York City
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Vanderbilt family ⓘ |
| child | Alva Erskine Vanderbilt ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American people of European descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Desha ⓘ |
| givenName | Phoebe ⓘ |
| name | Phoebe Ann Desha self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Alva Erskine Vanderbilt ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Alva Erskine Smith
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Alva Erskine Vanderbilt ⓘ Consuelo Vanderbilt ⓘ Cornelius Vanderbilt II ⓘ George Washington Desha ⓘ Harold Stirling Vanderbilt ⓘ Joseph Desha ⓘ William Kissam Vanderbilt ⓘ William Kissam Vanderbilt II ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Phoebe Ann Desha Description of subject: Phoebe Ann Desha was the mother of American socialite Alva Erskine Vanderbilt, who became a prominent figure in New York's Gilded Age high society.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.