Eda Blankart Funston
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Eda Blankart Funston was the wife of U.S. Army General Frederick Funston, a prominent military figure in the Spanish–American and Philippine–American Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eda Blankart Funston canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3771725 — 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: Eda Blankart Funston Context triple: [Frederick Funston, spouse, Eda Blankart Funston]
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A.
Tula Ellice Finklea
Tula Ellice Finklea, better known by her stage name Cyd Charisse, was an American dancer and actress famed for her roles in classic Hollywood musical films.
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B.
Sidney Franklin
Sidney Franklin was an American film producer and director best known for his work during Hollywood's Golden Age, including acclaimed literary adaptations.
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C.
Jean Speegle Howard
Jean Speegle Howard was an American character actress known for her work in film and television and as the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard.
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D.
Daniel Comstock
Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
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E.
Francis Dayle Hearn
Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn was a legendary American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers and a pioneer of modern basketball commentary.
- 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: Eda Blankart Funston Target entity description: Eda Blankart Funston was the wife of U.S. Army General Frederick Funston, a prominent military figure in the Spanish–American and Philippine–American Wars.
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A.
Tula Ellice Finklea
Tula Ellice Finklea, better known by her stage name Cyd Charisse, was an American dancer and actress famed for her roles in classic Hollywood musical films.
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B.
Sidney Franklin
Sidney Franklin was an American film producer and director best known for his work during Hollywood's Golden Age, including acclaimed literary adaptations.
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C.
Jean Speegle Howard
Jean Speegle Howard was an American character actress known for her work in film and television and as the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard.
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D.
Daniel Comstock
Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
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E.
Francis Dayle Hearn
Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn was a legendary American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers and a pioneer of modern basketball commentary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ military spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Army ⓘ |
| familyName | Funston ⓘ |
| givenName | Eda ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Major General ⓘ |
| name | Eda Blankart Funston ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of U.S. Army General Frederick Funston
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service in the Philippine–American War ⓘ service in the Spanish–American War ⓘ |
| spouse |
Eda Blankart Funston
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Frederick Funston ⓘ |
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: Eda Blankart Funston Description of subject: Eda Blankart Funston was the wife of U.S. Army General Frederick Funston, a prominent military figure in the Spanish–American and Philippine–American Wars.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.