Eleanor Foster
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Eleanor Foster was the wife of Robert Lansing, who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eleanor Foster canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4226288 — 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: Eleanor Foster Context triple: [Robert Lansing, spouse, Eleanor Foster]
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A.
Eleanor Dern
Eleanor Dern is a member of the Dern family, related to acclaimed American actor Bruce Dern.
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B.
Eleanor Pittman
Eleanor Pittman is known as the first wife of acclaimed American stage and film actor Jason Robards.
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C.
Eleanor Black
Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
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D.
Eleanor Vance
Eleanor Vance is the psychologically fragile protagonist of Shirley Jackson’s horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," whose experiences in the haunted mansion drive the story’s exploration of fear and isolation.
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E.
Eleanor Gates
Eleanor Gates is the daughter of Robert M. Gates, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Director of Central Intelligence.
- 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: Eleanor Foster Target entity description: Eleanor Foster was the wife of Robert Lansing, who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson.
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A.
Eleanor Dern
Eleanor Dern is a member of the Dern family, related to acclaimed American actor Bruce Dern.
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B.
Eleanor Pittman
Eleanor Pittman is known as the first wife of acclaimed American stage and film actor Jason Robards.
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C.
Eleanor Black
Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
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D.
Eleanor Vance
Eleanor Vance is the psychologically fragile protagonist of Shirley Jackson’s horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," whose experiences in the haunted mansion drive the story’s exploration of fear and isolation.
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E.
Eleanor Gates
Eleanor Gates is the daughter of Robert M. Gates, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Director of Central Intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ spouse of a politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Woodrow Wilson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
President of the United States
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United States Secretary of State ⓘ |
| spouse |
Eleanor Foster
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Robert Lansing ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 1915–1920 as U.S. Secretary of State ⓘ |
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: Eleanor Foster Description of subject: Eleanor Foster was the wife of Robert Lansing, who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Eleanor Foster