Ida Alice Shourds
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Ida Alice Shourds was the second wife of American industrialist and railroad magnate Henry Flagler, whose troubled marriage and eventual institutionalization became a notable episode in his personal life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ida Alice Shourds canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4201920 — 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: Ida Alice Shourds Context triple: [Henry Flagler, spouse, Ida Alice Shourds]
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A.
Ida Scott
Ida Scott is a character in James Baldwin's novel "Another Country," which explores complex themes of race, sexuality, and identity in mid-20th-century America.
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B.
Ida Waterman
Ida Waterman was an American stage and silent film actress active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Ida Crowe
Ida Crowe was the second wife of Scottish editor and publisher Hugh Alexander Pollock, known primarily in relation to his personal life rather than for a prominent public career of her own.
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D.
Zelma Atwood
Zelma Atwood is best known as the widow of legendary soul singer Otis Redding and the longtime steward of his musical legacy and estate.
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E.
Nettie Moore
Nettie Moore is a song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album "Modern Times," noted for its haunting lyrics and blend of folk, blues, and Americana influences.
- 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: Ida Alice Shourds Target entity description: Ida Alice Shourds was the second wife of American industrialist and railroad magnate Henry Flagler, whose troubled marriage and eventual institutionalization became a notable episode in his personal life.
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A.
Ida Scott
Ida Scott is a character in James Baldwin's novel "Another Country," which explores complex themes of race, sexuality, and identity in mid-20th-century America.
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B.
Ida Waterman
Ida Waterman was an American stage and silent film actress active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Ida Crowe
Ida Crowe was the second wife of Scottish editor and publisher Hugh Alexander Pollock, known primarily in relation to his personal life rather than for a prominent public career of her own.
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D.
Zelma Atwood
Zelma Atwood is best known as the widow of legendary soul singer Otis Redding and the longtime steward of his musical legacy and estate.
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E.
Nettie Moore
Nettie Moore is a song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album "Modern Times," noted for its haunting lyrics and blend of folk, blues, and Americana influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Flagler family
ⓘ
Henry Flagler ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Oil founder Henry Flagler
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| event | institutionalization in a mental asylum ⓘ |
| genreOfBiographicalCoverage | Gilded Age history ⓘ |
| hasCauseOfEvent | mental illness ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | socialite ⓘ |
| hasReputation | tragic figure in Flagler family history ⓘ |
| legalStatusRelatedEvent | her mental condition was used in legal proceedings concerning Henry Flagler’s marital status ⓘ |
| lifeEvent | confinement to an institution for the mentally ill ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married (to Henry Flagler) ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | biographies of Henry Flagler ⓘ |
| name | Ida Alice Shourds self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the second wife of Henry Flagler
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her eventual institutionalization ⓘ her troubled marriage to Henry Flagler ⓘ |
| partOf | personal life of Henry Flagler ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Florida
ⓘ
New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipToHenryFlagler | second wife ⓘ |
| spouse |
Henry Flagler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ida Alice Shourds self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Gilded Age ⓘ |
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: Ida Alice Shourds Description of subject: Ida Alice Shourds was the second wife of American industrialist and railroad magnate Henry Flagler, whose troubled marriage and eventual institutionalization became a notable episode in his personal life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Henry Flagler