Princess de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer)
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Princess de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer) was an American-born Singer sewing-machine heiress, art patron, and influential salonnière in Paris who supported many leading composers and artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Princess de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer) canonical | 1 |
| Princesse de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8240869 — 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: Princess de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer) Context triple: [Cimetière de Passy, burialPlaceOf, Princess de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer)]
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A.
Eugénie Savoye
Eugénie Savoye was a French client and member of the Savoye family who commissioned Le Corbusier to design the iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
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B.
Gabrielle de Polignac
Gabrielle de Polignac was a French aristocrat and close confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette, known for her influence at the royal court of Versailles on the eve of the French Revolution.
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C.
Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy
Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy is a Belgian-born aristocrat who became Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg through her marriage to Prince Guillaume.
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D.
Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies is a member of the former royal family of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and a French aristocrat connected to several European royal and noble houses.
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E.
Duchess of Nemours
The Duchess of Nemours was a prominent French noblewoman of the House of Este who held one of the significant ducal titles in Renaissance France.
- 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: Princess de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer) Target entity description: Princess de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer) was an American-born Singer sewing-machine heiress, art patron, and influential salonnière in Paris who supported many leading composers and artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Eugénie Savoye
Eugénie Savoye was a French client and member of the Savoye family who commissioned Le Corbusier to design the iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
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B.
Gabrielle de Polignac
Gabrielle de Polignac was a French aristocrat and close confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette, known for her influence at the royal court of Versailles on the eve of the French Revolution.
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C.
Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy
Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy is a Belgian-born aristocrat who became Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg through her marriage to Prince Guillaume.
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D.
Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies is a member of the former royal family of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and a French aristocrat connected to several European royal and noble houses.
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E.
Duchess of Nemours
The Duchess of Nemours was a prominent French noblewoman of the House of Este who held one of the significant ducal titles in Renaissance France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art patron
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heiress ⓘ patron of music ⓘ person ⓘ princess ⓘ salonnière ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Princess de Polignac
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Princesse Edmond de Polignac NERFINISHED ⓘ Princesse de Polignac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1865-01-08 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Yonkers, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1943-11-26 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
early 20th century
ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ |
| family | Singer family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Isaac Merritt Singer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritage | American-born ⓘ |
| hosted | musical salons at her Paris residence ⓘ |
| knownFor | supporting composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | Prince Louis de Scey-Montbéliard, 1892 (annulled) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marriageStart |
Prince Edmond de Polignac, 1893
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prince Louis de Scey-Montbéliard, 1887 ⓘ |
| mother | Isabella Eugénie Boyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | French musical modernism ⓘ |
| name | Winnaretta Singer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
hosting influential artistic salons in Paris
ⓘ
patronage of modern music ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Isaac Merritt Singer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
art patron
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ pianist ⓘ salonnière ⓘ |
| patronOf |
Claude Debussy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Darius Milhaud NERFINISHED ⓘ Erik Satie NERFINISHED ⓘ Ethel Smyth NERFINISHED ⓘ Francis Poulenc NERFINISHED ⓘ Gabriel Fauré NERFINISHED ⓘ Igor Stravinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurt Weill NERFINISHED ⓘ Manuel de Falla NERFINISHED ⓘ Maurice Ravel NERFINISHED ⓘ Nadia Boulanger NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Hindemith NERFINISHED ⓘ Reynaldo Hahn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholic (by marriage and social milieu) ⓘ |
| residence |
Palais de Polignac, Paris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ
surface form:
Paris, France
|
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| spouse |
Prince Edmond de Polignac
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prince Louis de Scey-Montbéliard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supported |
Ballets Russes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
contemporary visual artists ⓘ |
| title |
Princess de Polignac
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Princesse Edmond de Polignac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wealthSource | Singer sewing-machine fortune ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Princess de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer) Description of subject: Princess de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer) was an American-born Singer sewing-machine heiress, art patron, and influential salonnière in Paris who supported many leading composers and artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cimetière de Passy
this entity surface form:
Princesse de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer)