Asia Booth Clarke is the sister of John Wilkes Booth
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Asia Booth Clarke was a 19th-century American writer and diarist best known for her memoirs about her brother, presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth, and the theatrical Booth family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Asia Booth Clarke is the sister of Edwin Booth | 1 |
| Asia Booth Clarke is the sister of John Wilkes Booth canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5402670 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Asia Booth Clarke is the sister of John Wilkes Booth Context triple: [Booth family, hasFamilyRelationship, Asia Booth Clarke is the sister of John Wilkes Booth]
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A.
Mary Ann Holmes Booth
Mary Ann Holmes Booth was the wife of prominent 19th-century American actor Junius Brutus Booth and the mother of several actor sons, including presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth.
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B.
Mary Ann Booth
Mary Ann Booth was the daughter of Mary Ann Holmes Booth and a member of the prominent 19th-century Booth family connected to the American theatrical world.
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C.
Mary Macaulay Booth
Mary Macaulay Booth was the wife and close collaborator of social reformer Charles Booth, supporting his influential investigations into poverty and working-class life in late 19th-century London.
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D.
John Harrison Surratt Sr.
John Harrison Surratt Sr. was an American innkeeper and Confederate sympathizer whose family, including his wife Mary Surratt and son John Jr., became deeply entangled in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Mary McVicker Booth
Mary McVicker Booth was a 19th-century American actress best known for her stage career and for being the second wife of renowned tragedian Edwin Booth.
- 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: Asia Booth Clarke is the sister of John Wilkes Booth Target entity description: Asia Booth Clarke was a 19th-century American writer and diarist best known for her memoirs about her brother, presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth, and the theatrical Booth family.
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A.
Mary Ann Holmes Booth
Mary Ann Holmes Booth was the wife of prominent 19th-century American actor Junius Brutus Booth and the mother of several actor sons, including presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth.
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B.
Mary Ann Booth
Mary Ann Booth was the daughter of Mary Ann Holmes Booth and a member of the prominent 19th-century Booth family connected to the American theatrical world.
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C.
Mary Macaulay Booth
Mary Macaulay Booth was the wife and close collaborator of social reformer Charles Booth, supporting his influential investigations into poverty and working-class life in late 19th-century London.
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D.
John Harrison Surratt Sr.
John Harrison Surratt Sr. was an American innkeeper and Confederate sympathizer whose family, including his wife Mary Surratt and son John Jr., became deeply entangled in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Mary McVicker Booth
Mary McVicker Booth was a 19th-century American actress best known for her stage career and for being the second wife of renowned tragedian Edwin Booth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
diarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Asia Booth
ⓘ
linked to:
Asia Booth Clarke
Asia Booth Clarke, American diarist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of English descent ⓘ |
| family | Booth family ⓘ |
| father | Junius Brutus Booth ⓘ |
| floruit | 19th century ⓘ |
| genre |
diary
ⓘ
memoir ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Booth ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Asia ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Ann Holmes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
memoirs about her brother John Wilkes Booth
ⓘ
writings about the theatrical Booth family ⓘ |
| notableWork |
memoirs about John Wilkes Booth
ⓘ
memoirs about the Booth family ⓘ |
| occupation |
diarist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| relative |
Abraham Lincoln (assassination subject of her brother)
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linked to:
Abraham Lincoln
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling |
Edwin Booth
ⓘ
John Wilkes Booth ⓘ Junius Brutus Booth Jr. ⓘ |
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: Asia Booth Clarke is the sister of John Wilkes Booth Description of subject: Asia Booth Clarke was a 19th-century American writer and diarist best known for her memoirs about her brother, presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth, and the theatrical Booth family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Asia Booth Clarke is the sister of John Wilkes Booth