Fanny Smith
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Fanny Smith was the mother of the influential British statistician and eugenicist Karl Pearson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fanny Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7454042 — 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 Smith Context triple: [Karl Pearson, hasMother, Fanny Smith]
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A.
Fanny Smith
Fanny Smith is a woman known primarily as the sister of Sophia Smith, the American philanthropist and founder of Smith College.
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B.
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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C.
Fanny Davies
Fanny Davies was a prominent British pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for her interpretations of Romantic repertoire and her close association with the Schumann and Brahms traditions.
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D.
Fanny Minafer
Fanny Minafer is a central character in Booth Tarkington’s novel "The Magnificent Ambersons," known for her anxious, meddling nature and her role in the decline of the once-prominent Amberson family.
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E.
Fannie Hillsmith
Fannie Hillsmith was an American painter associated with Cubism who helped shape mid-20th-century modern art and co-founded the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
- 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 Smith Target entity description: Fanny Smith was the mother of the influential British statistician and eugenicist Karl Pearson.
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A.
Fanny Smith
Fanny Smith is a woman known primarily as the sister of Sophia Smith, the American philanthropist and founder of Smith College.
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B.
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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C.
Fanny Davies
Fanny Davies was a prominent British pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for her interpretations of Romantic repertoire and her close association with the Schumann and Brahms traditions.
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D.
Fanny Minafer
Fanny Minafer is a central character in Booth Tarkington’s novel "The Magnificent Ambersons," known for her anxious, meddling nature and her role in the decline of the once-prominent Amberson family.
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E.
Fannie Hillsmith
Fannie Hillsmith was an American painter associated with Cubism who helped shape mid-20th-century modern art and co-founded the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Karl Pearson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| mother | Fanny Smith ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 Smith Description of subject: Fanny Smith was the mother of the influential British statistician and eugenicist Karl Pearson.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Fanny Smith