Sarah Jane Negley
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Sarah Jane Negley was the wife of prominent Pittsburgh banker and judge Thomas Mellon and a member of a notable 19th-century Pennsylvania family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sarah Jane Negley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7003879 — 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: Sarah Jane Negley Context triple: [Thomas Mellon, spouse, Sarah Jane Negley]
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A.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Beth Kittridge
Beth Kittridge is a fictional character portrayed by Canadian actress Torri Higginson, known from her work in television and film.
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C.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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D.
Katherine Schofield
Katherine Schofield is an actress known for her role in the biographical television film "The Josephine Baker Story."
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E.
Sarah Davenport
Sarah Davenport was the wife of colonial American Congregational minister and educator Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College.
- 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: Sarah Jane Negley Target entity description: Sarah Jane Negley was the wife of prominent Pittsburgh banker and judge Thomas Mellon and a member of a notable 19th-century Pennsylvania family.
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A.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Beth Kittridge
Beth Kittridge is a fictional character portrayed by Canadian actress Torri Higginson, known from her work in television and film.
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C.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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D.
Katherine Schofield
Katherine Schofield is an actress known for her role in the biographical television film "The Josephine Baker Story."
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E.
Sarah Davenport
Sarah Davenport was the wife of colonial American Congregational minister and educator Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Negley ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | 19th century ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Mellon family
ⓘ
Negley family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of banker and judge Thomas Mellon
ⓘ
membership in a prominent 19th-century Pennsylvania family ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Thomas Mellon ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Pittsburgh
ⓘ
linked to:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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| spouse | Thomas Mellon ⓘ |
| stateOfResidence | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
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: Sarah Jane Negley Description of subject: Sarah Jane Negley was the wife of prominent Pittsburgh banker and judge Thomas Mellon and a member of a notable 19th-century Pennsylvania family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.