Frances Ann Devereux
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Frances Ann Devereux was the wife of Confederate general and Episcopal bishop Leonidas Polk and a member of a prominent Southern family in the 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frances Ann Devereux canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5828641 — 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: Frances Ann Devereux Context triple: [Leonidas Polk, spouse, Frances Ann Devereux]
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A.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of Robert Rogers, the famed 18th-century American frontiersman and leader of Rogers' Rangers.
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B.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of the pioneering English physician William Harvey, known for his discovery of the circulation of blood.
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C.
Mary Apthorp
Mary Apthorp was the wife of influential American theologian and Congregational minister Horace Bushnell in the 19th century.
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D.
Frances Allerton
Frances Allerton was a member of the early 17th-century Allerton family connected to Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton.
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E.
Frances Jennings
Frances Jennings was a 17th-century English court beauty and later Irish noblewoman, noted for her marriages into prominent Jacobite circles and her eventual life of religious seclusion.
- 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: Frances Ann Devereux Target entity description: Frances Ann Devereux was the wife of Confederate general and Episcopal bishop Leonidas Polk and a member of a prominent Southern family in the 19th century.
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A.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of Robert Rogers, the famed 18th-century American frontiersman and leader of Rogers' Rangers.
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B.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of the pioneering English physician William Harvey, known for his discovery of the circulation of blood.
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C.
Mary Apthorp
Mary Apthorp was the wife of influential American theologian and Congregational minister Horace Bushnell in the 19th century.
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D.
Frances Allerton
Frances Allerton was a member of the early 17th-century Allerton family connected to Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton.
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E.
Frances Jennings
Frances Jennings was a 17th-century English court beauty and later Irish noblewoman, noted for her marriages into prominent Jacobite circles and her eventual life of religious seclusion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Devereux ⓘ |
| givenName | Frances ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Devereux family
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prominent Southern family ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being wife of Leonidas Polk
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role in Southern society during the 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
Confederate general
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Episcopal bishop ⓘ |
| religion |
Episcopal Church (United States)
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linked to:
Episcopal Church
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| residence |
Louisiana
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North Carolina ⓘ |
| spouse |
Frances Ann Devereux
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Leonidas Polk ⓘ |
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: Frances Ann Devereux Description of subject: Frances Ann Devereux was the wife of Confederate general and Episcopal bishop Leonidas Polk and a member of a prominent Southern family in the 19th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.