Ann Gelius Austerlitz
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Ann Gelius Austerlitz was the mother of legendary American dancer, singer, and actor Fred Astaire.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ann Gelius Austerlitz canonical | 1 |
| Johanna "Ann" Geilus Austerlitz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T341839 — 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: Ann Gelius Austerlitz Context triple: [Fred Astaire, mother, Ann Gelius Austerlitz]
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A.
Marie-Thérèse Walter
Marie-Thérèse Walter was a French woman best known as Pablo Picasso’s muse and lover, who inspired many of his most celebrated portraits and sculptures in the 1930s.
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B.
Leopold Eidlitz
Leopold Eidlitz was a 19th-century American architect known for his influential role in developing a distinctively American Gothic and Romanesque architectural style.
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C.
Eduard de Stoeckl
Eduard de Stoeckl was a 19th-century Russian diplomat best known for representing the Russian Empire in Washington and arranging the sale of Alaska to the United States.
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D.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
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E.
Emil Sieg
Emil Sieg was a German linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work on Tocharian and other Indo-European languages.
- 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: Ann Gelius Austerlitz Target entity description: Ann Gelius Austerlitz was the mother of legendary American dancer, singer, and actor Fred Astaire.
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A.
Marie-Thérèse Walter
Marie-Thérèse Walter was a French woman best known as Pablo Picasso’s muse and lover, who inspired many of his most celebrated portraits and sculptures in the 1930s.
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B.
Leopold Eidlitz
Leopold Eidlitz was a 19th-century American architect known for his influential role in developing a distinctively American Gothic and Romanesque architectural style.
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C.
Eduard de Stoeckl
Eduard de Stoeckl was a 19th-century Russian diplomat best known for representing the Russian Empire in Washington and arranging the sale of Alaska to the United States.
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D.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
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E.
Emil Sieg
Emil Sieg was a German linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work on Tocharian and other Indo-European languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mother ⓘ |
| child | Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Austerlitz ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| relative | Fred Astaire ⓘ |
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: Ann Gelius Austerlitz Description of subject: Ann Gelius Austerlitz was the mother of legendary American dancer, singer, and actor Fred Astaire.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.