Ann Ball
E791483
Ann Ball was the wife of Sir Thomas Bodley, the English diplomat and scholar best known for founding the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9332380 — 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: Ann Ball Context triple: [Thomas Bodley, spouse, Ann Ball]
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A.
Henrietta Ball
Henrietta Ball was the wife of Canadian physician and Nobel laureate Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin.
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B.
Eleanor Ball
Eleanor Ball was an American woman known primarily as the birth name of Eleanor Ball Laurens, a member of the prominent Laurens family in early United States history.
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C.
Anne Bracegirdle
Anne Bracegirdle was a celebrated late 17th-century English stage actress renowned for her virtuous public image and prominent roles in Restoration comedy.
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D.
Sarah Douglas
Sarah Douglas is a British actress best known for her villainous roles in fantasy and science fiction films, including General Zod’s ally Ursa in the Superman movies and the sorceress Queen Taramis in Conan the Destroyer.
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E.
Florence Balcombe
Florence Balcombe was an Irish socialite best known as the wife of Dracula author Bram Stoker and formerly a romantic interest of Oscar Wilde.
- 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: Ann Ball Target entity description: Ann Ball was the wife of Sir Thomas Bodley, the English diplomat and scholar best known for founding the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
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A.
Henrietta Ball
Henrietta Ball was the wife of Canadian physician and Nobel laureate Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin.
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B.
Eleanor Ball
Eleanor Ball was an American woman known primarily as the birth name of Eleanor Ball Laurens, a member of the prominent Laurens family in early United States history.
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C.
Anne Bracegirdle
Anne Bracegirdle was a celebrated late 17th-century English stage actress renowned for her virtuous public image and prominent roles in Restoration comedy.
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D.
Sarah Douglas
Sarah Douglas is a British actress best known for her villainous roles in fantasy and science fiction films, including General Zod’s ally Ursa in the Superman movies and the sorceress Queen Taramis in Conan the Destroyer.
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E.
Florence Balcombe
Florence Balcombe was an Irish socialite best known as the wife of Dracula author Bram Stoker and formerly a romantic interest of Oscar Wilde.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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research library ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of England
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Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| location | Oxford ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of Sir Thomas Bodley
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founding the Bodleian Library at Oxford ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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scholar ⓘ |
| relative | Thomas Bodley ⓘ |
| residence |
England
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Oxford ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ann Ball
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Thomas Bodley ⓘ |
| workLocation | Oxford ⓘ |
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: Ann Ball Description of subject: Ann Ball was the wife of Sir Thomas Bodley, the English diplomat and scholar best known for founding the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ann Ball