Evelyn Nesbit
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Evelyn Nesbit was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and early 20th-century celebrity whose involvement in a notorious love triangle led to the sensational 1906 murder trial of architect Stanford White.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Evelyn Nesbit canonical | 8 |
| Evelyn Florence Nesbit (mother) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5746993 — 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: Evelyn Nesbit Context triple: [The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, mainSubject, Evelyn Nesbit]
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A.
Marian Marsh
Marian Marsh was a Canadian-born American film actress best known for her leading roles in early 1930s Hollywood dramas and crime films.
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B.
Mary Frances Kelly
Mary Frances Kelly was the first wife of American hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, with whom she had several children before their divorce.
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C.
Isabel Sanford
Isabel Sanford was an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as Louise "Weezy" Jefferson on the groundbreaking sitcom The Jeffersons.
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D.
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Elizabeth Jane Cochran, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was a pioneering American investigative journalist famed for her undercover exposés and record-setting trip around the world.
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E.
Beatrice Warren
Beatrice Warren was a physicist whose contributions to the field of diffraction physics were significant enough to have a prestigious scientific award named in her honor.
- 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: Evelyn Nesbit Target entity description: Evelyn Nesbit was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and early 20th-century celebrity whose involvement in a notorious love triangle led to the sensational 1906 murder trial of architect Stanford White.
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A.
Marian Marsh
Marian Marsh was a Canadian-born American film actress best known for her leading roles in early 1930s Hollywood dramas and crime films.
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B.
Mary Frances Kelly
Mary Frances Kelly was the first wife of American hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, with whom she had several children before their divorce.
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C.
Isabel Sanford
Isabel Sanford was an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as Louise "Weezy" Jefferson on the groundbreaking sitcom The Jeffersons.
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D.
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Elizabeth Jane Cochran, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was a pioneering American investigative journalist famed for her undercover exposés and record-setting trip around the world.
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E.
Beatrice Warren
Beatrice Warren was a physicist whose contributions to the field of diffraction physics were significant enough to have a prestigious scientific award named in her honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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artists' model ⓘ chorus girl ⓘ early 20th-century celebrity ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYears | late 1890s–1930s ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| child | Russell William Thaw ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1884-12-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1967-01-17 ⓘ |
| describedAs |
"The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing"
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linked to:
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
|
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Nesbit ⓘ |
| fullName | Florence Evelyn Nesbit ⓘ |
| genre | silent film acting ⓘ |
| givenName |
Evelyn
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Florence ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
Ragtime (novel) character based on her
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
|
| modeledFor |
Charles Dana Gibson
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Frederick S. Church ⓘ
linked to:
Frederick Stuart Church
James Carroll Beckwith ⓘ photographic studios in New York City ⓘ |
| mother |
Evelyn Florence Nesbit (mother)
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linked to:
Evelyn Nesbit
|
| notableEvent |
1906 murder of Stanford White
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Trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White ⓘ
linked to:
Thaw–White murder case
|
| notableFor | being central figure in the Stanford White–Harry K. Thaw scandal ⓘ |
| notableRole |
chorus girl in the Broadway production of "Florodora"
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performer in Ziegfeld Follies-era revues ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Prodigal Days (autobiography)
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The Story of My Life (autobiography) ⓘ |
| occupation |
artists' model
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author ⓘ cabaret performer ⓘ chorus girl ⓘ film actress ⓘ lecturer ⓘ stage actress ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| participantIn | Madison Square Garden Roof Garden shooting ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Tarentum, Pennsylvania, United States
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linked to:
Tarentum, Pennsylvania
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| placeOfDeath |
Santa Monica, California, United States
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linked to:
Santa Monica
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| residence |
New York City
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Harry Kendall Thaw
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linked to:
Harry K. Thaw
Jack Clifford ⓘ |
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: Evelyn Nesbit Description of subject: Evelyn Nesbit was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and early 20th-century celebrity whose involvement in a notorious love triangle led to the sensational 1906 murder trial of architect Stanford White.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Evelyn Nesbit