Ida Tobias
E490500
Ida Tobias was the longtime wife of American entertainer Eddie Cantor, known primarily for her marriage to the famed vaudeville, radio, and film comedian.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ida Tobias canonical | 2 |
| Ida Tobias Cantor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5056812 — 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 Tobias Context triple: [Eddie Cantor, spouse, Ida Tobias]
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A.
Ida Ehre
Ida Ehre was a prominent German actress and influential theater director, best known for her postwar leadership of the Hamburger Kammerspiele and her contributions to rebuilding German cultural life after World War II.
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B.
Ida Magnus
Ida Magnus was the wife of Paul Julius Reuter, the German-born founder of the Reuters news agency.
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C.
Edna Babish
Edna Babish is a recurring character on the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," known as the girls’ landlady who later marries Laverne’s father, Frank DeFazio.
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D.
Louisa Jacobson
Louisa Jacobson is an American actress and model, best known for her role in the television series "The Gilded Age" and as the youngest daughter of acclaimed actress Meryl Streep.
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E.
Ida Waterman
Ida Waterman was an American stage and silent film actress active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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 Tobias Target entity description: Ida Tobias was the longtime wife of American entertainer Eddie Cantor, known primarily for her marriage to the famed vaudeville, radio, and film comedian.
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A.
Ida Ehre
Ida Ehre was a prominent German actress and influential theater director, best known for her postwar leadership of the Hamburger Kammerspiele and her contributions to rebuilding German cultural life after World War II.
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B.
Ida Magnus
Ida Magnus was the wife of Paul Julius Reuter, the German-born founder of the Reuters news agency.
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C.
Edna Babish
Edna Babish is a recurring character on the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," known as the girls’ landlady who later marries Laverne’s father, Frank DeFazio.
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D.
Louisa Jacobson
Louisa Jacobson is an American actress and model, best known for her role in the television series "The Gilded Age" and as the youngest daughter of acclaimed actress Meryl Streep.
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E.
Ida Waterman
Ida Waterman was an American stage and silent film actress active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Tobias ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Ida Tobias ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Eddie Cantor ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| spouse |
Eddie Cantor
ⓘ
Ida Tobias ⓘ |
| spouseGivenName | Edward Israel Iskowitz ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
entertainer
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film comedian ⓘ radio comedian ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| spouseStageName | Eddie Cantor ⓘ |
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 Tobias Description of subject: Ida Tobias was the longtime wife of American entertainer Eddie Cantor, known primarily for her marriage to the famed vaudeville, radio, and film comedian.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ida Tobias