Fanny Phelps
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Fanny Phelps was the first wife of American politician and jurist Alphonso Taft, connected to a prominent 19th-century Ohio legal and political family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fanny Phelps canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6193786 — 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: Fanny Phelps Context triple: [Alphonso Taft, spouse, Fanny Phelps]
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A.
Mary Hortense Kimball
Mary Hortense Kimball was the wife of American businessman and retail magnate James Cash Penney, founder of the J. C. Penney department store chain.
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B.
Fanny Fassitt Furness
Fanny Fassitt Furness was the wife of prominent American architect Frank Furness and a member of Philadelphia’s social elite in the late 19th century.
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C.
Lydia King Phelps Stokes
Lydia King Phelps Stokes was an American philanthropist and civic leader from a prominent New York family, known for her social activism and support of educational and cultural institutions.
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D.
Fanny Elizabeth Moore
Fanny Elizabeth Moore was the wife of renowned British theatre architect Frank Matcham, known primarily in relation to his personal life.
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E.
Frances Fairchild Bryant
Frances Fairchild Bryant was the wife of American poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant and a supportive figure in his personal and literary life.
- 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: Fanny Phelps Target entity description: Fanny Phelps was the first wife of American politician and jurist Alphonso Taft, connected to a prominent 19th-century Ohio legal and political family.
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A.
Mary Hortense Kimball
Mary Hortense Kimball was the wife of American businessman and retail magnate James Cash Penney, founder of the J. C. Penney department store chain.
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B.
Fanny Fassitt Furness
Fanny Fassitt Furness was the wife of prominent American architect Frank Furness and a member of Philadelphia’s social elite in the late 19th century.
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C.
Lydia King Phelps Stokes
Lydia King Phelps Stokes was an American philanthropist and civic leader from a prominent New York family, known for her social activism and support of educational and cultural institutions.
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D.
Fanny Elizabeth Moore
Fanny Elizabeth Moore was the wife of renowned British theatre architect Frank Matcham, known primarily in relation to his personal life.
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E.
Frances Fairchild Bryant
Frances Fairchild Bryant was the wife of American poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant and a supportive figure in his personal and literary life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ohio legal community
ⓘ
Ohio political community ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| familyConnection | Taft family ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married (historical) ⓘ |
| name | Fanny Phelps ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Alphonso Taft ⓘ |
| occupation |
jurist
ⓘ
politician ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
William Howard Taft
ⓘ
linked to:
President William Howard Taft
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| residence |
Ohio
ⓘ
Ohio ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alphonso Taft
ⓘ
Fanny Phelps ⓘ |
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: Fanny Phelps Description of subject: Fanny Phelps was the first wife of American politician and jurist Alphonso Taft, connected to a prominent 19th-century Ohio legal and political family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.