Elizabeth May Maddern
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Elizabeth May Maddern was the first wife of American author Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney), whom he married in 1900 before their later divorce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth May Maddern canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4924866 — 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: Elizabeth May Maddern Context triple: [John Griffith Chaney, spouse, Elizabeth May Maddern]
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A.
Elizabeth Sheaf
Elizabeth Sheaf was the wife of Jonathan Corwin, a prominent judge involved in the Salem witch trials in 17th-century Massachusetts.
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B.
Katherine Mary Dewar
Katherine Mary Dewar was the wife of pioneering Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and a supportive partner in his personal and scientific life.
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C.
Isobel Cripps
Isobel Cripps was a British activist and humanitarian best known as the wife of prominent Labour politician and wartime Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps.
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D.
Alison Telfer
Alison Telfer is a British academic and editor best known as the longtime partner and former wife of Monty Python member Terry Jones.
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E.
Margaret Craig
Margaret Craig is known primarily as the child of William Craig.
- 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: Elizabeth May Maddern Target entity description: Elizabeth May Maddern was the first wife of American author Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney), whom he married in 1900 before their later divorce.
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A.
Elizabeth Sheaf
Elizabeth Sheaf was the wife of Jonathan Corwin, a prominent judge involved in the Salem witch trials in 17th-century Massachusetts.
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B.
Katherine Mary Dewar
Katherine Mary Dewar was the wife of pioneering Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and a supportive partner in his personal and scientific life.
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C.
Isobel Cripps
Isobel Cripps was a British activist and humanitarian best known as the wife of prominent Labour politician and wartime Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps.
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D.
Alison Telfer
Alison Telfer is a British academic and editor best known as the longtime partner and former wife of Monty Python member Terry Jones.
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E.
Margaret Craig
Margaret Craig is known primarily as the child of William Craig.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| divorcedFrom |
Jack London
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John Griffith Chaney ⓘ |
| endTimeOfMarriage | after 1900 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasMaritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| languageOfSocialEnvironment | English ⓘ |
| marriageLocationCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Elizabeth May Maddern ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Jack London ⓘ |
| occupation | spouse of a writer ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jack London
ⓘ
John Griffith Chaney ⓘ |
| spouseNameAtBirth | John Griffith Chaney ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
novelist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of Jack London ⓘ |
| startTimeOfMarriage | 1900 ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth May Maddern Description of subject: Elizabeth May Maddern was the first wife of American author Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney), whom he married in 1900 before their later divorce.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.