Tamsen Donner
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Tamsen Donner was a member of the ill-fated Donner Party and the wife of its leader George Donner, remembered for her tragic death during the expedition’s entrapment in the Sierra Nevada in 1846–47.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tamsen Donner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5297080 — 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: Tamsen Donner Context triple: [Donner Party, associatedWithPerson, Tamsen Donner]
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A.
Martha Jane Kane
Martha Jane Kane was the wife of legendary Los Angeles Lakers guard and NBA logo inspiration Jerry West.
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B.
Lisa Fremont
Lisa Fremont is the stylish and resourceful socialite portrayed by Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's film "Rear Window."
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C.
Julia Hoyt
Julia Hoyt was an American stage and silent film actress and socialite active in the early 20th century.
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D.
Jessie Little Doe Baird
Jessie Little Doe Baird is a Wampanoag linguist and language activist known for leading the revival of the Wôpanâak language and efforts to restore it as a living, spoken language in her community.
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E.
Sarah Fenn
Sarah Fenn is a key supporting character in the 2007 action thriller film "Shooter," serving as an ally and love interest to the protagonist while helping uncover a government conspiracy.
- 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: Tamsen Donner Target entity description: Tamsen Donner was a member of the ill-fated Donner Party and the wife of its leader George Donner, remembered for her tragic death during the expedition’s entrapment in the Sierra Nevada in 1846–47.
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A.
Martha Jane Kane
Martha Jane Kane was the wife of legendary Los Angeles Lakers guard and NBA logo inspiration Jerry West.
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B.
Lisa Fremont
Lisa Fremont is the stylish and resourceful socialite portrayed by Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's film "Rear Window."
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C.
Julia Hoyt
Julia Hoyt was an American stage and silent film actress and socialite active in the early 20th century.
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D.
Jessie Little Doe Baird
Jessie Little Doe Baird is a Wampanoag linguist and language activist known for leading the revival of the Wôpanâak language and efforts to restore it as a living, spoken language in her community.
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E.
Sarah Fenn
Sarah Fenn is a key supporting character in the 2007 action thriller film "Shooter," serving as an ally and love interest to the protagonist while helping uncover a government conspiracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
member of the Donner Party
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person ⓘ pioneer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | starvation ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateOfDeath | 1847 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Donner ⓘ |
| givenName | Tamsen ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Protestantism ⓘ |
| historicalEvent |
Donner Party entrapment in the Sierra Nevada (1846–1847)
ⓘ
linked to:
Donner Party
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Donner Party ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a member of the ill-fated Donner Party
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her death during the Donner Party entrapment in the Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| occupation | teacher ⓘ |
| participatedIn | westward migration to California ⓘ |
| partOf |
American westward expansion
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linked to:
United States territorial expansion
|
| placeOfDeath | Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| relative |
Elitha Donner
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Eliza Donner ⓘ Frances Donner ⓘ George Donner ⓘ Georgia Donner ⓘ
linked to:
Frances Donner
Leanna Donner ⓘ |
| residence |
Illinois
ⓘ
Springfield, Illinois ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | George Donner ⓘ |
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: Tamsen Donner Description of subject: Tamsen Donner was a member of the ill-fated Donner Party and the wife of its leader George Donner, remembered for her tragic death during the expedition’s entrapment in the Sierra Nevada in 1846–47.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.