Alice Tracy Wilmerding
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Alice Tracy Wilmerding was the woman who ceremonially sponsored and christened the U.S. Navy armored cruiser USS Maine (ACR-1) at its launching.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alice Tracy Wilmerding canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6703142 — 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: Alice Tracy Wilmerding Context triple: [USS Maine (ACR-1), sponsor, Alice Tracy Wilmerding]
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A.
Mary Tracy
Mary Tracy was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century, known primarily as the mother of Anne Vere, who married into the prominent Vere family.
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B.
Betsy Thomas
Betsy Thomas is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and executive producing the sitcom "My Boys."
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C.
Laura Ricketts
Laura Ricketts is an American attorney, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, and prominent LGBTQ+ activist and political donor.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Schaefer
Mary Elizabeth Schaefer was the wife of William R. Day, an American diplomat and U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
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E.
Alicia Bradford
Alicia Bradford was the wife of American industrialist and philanthropist Alfred I. du Pont.
- 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: Alice Tracy Wilmerding Target entity description: Alice Tracy Wilmerding was the woman who ceremonially sponsored and christened the U.S. Navy armored cruiser USS Maine (ACR-1) at its launching.
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A.
Mary Tracy
Mary Tracy was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century, known primarily as the mother of Anne Vere, who married into the prominent Vere family.
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B.
Betsy Thomas
Betsy Thomas is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and executive producing the sitcom "My Boys."
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C.
Laura Ricketts
Laura Ricketts is an American attorney, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, and prominent LGBTQ+ activist and political donor.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Schaefer
Mary Elizabeth Schaefer was the wife of William R. Day, an American diplomat and U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
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E.
Alicia Bradford
Alicia Bradford was the wife of American industrialist and philanthropist Alfred I. du Pont.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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ship sponsor ⓘ |
| christened | USS Maine (ACR-1) ⓘ |
| eventRole | sponsor of the launching of USS Maine (ACR-1) ⓘ |
| name | Alice Tracy Wilmerding ⓘ |
| notableFor | sponsoring and christening the U.S. Navy armored cruiser USS Maine (ACR-1) ⓘ |
| occupation | ship sponsor ⓘ |
| sponsor |
Alice Tracy Wilmerding
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Alice Tracy Wilmerding ⓘ |
| sponsored | USS Maine (ACR-1) ⓘ |
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: Alice Tracy Wilmerding Description of subject: Alice Tracy Wilmerding was the woman who ceremonially sponsored and christened the U.S. Navy armored cruiser USS Maine (ACR-1) at its launching.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.