Elspeth Grahame
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Elspeth Grahame was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children's book "The Wind in the Willows."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elspeth Grahame canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9343930 — 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: Elspeth Grahame Context triple: [Alastair Grahame, mother, Elspeth Grahame]
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A.
Catherine Gordon
Catherine Gordon was a Scottish heiress and the mother of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose troubled marriage and financial difficulties influenced his early life.
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B.
Elisabeth Farquharson
Elisabeth Farquharson was an 18th-century Scottish gentlewoman best known as the wife of the jurist and early evolutionary thinker James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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C.
Elizabeth Macdowall
Elizabeth Macdowall was the wife of Scottish judge and memoirist Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, and a member of Edinburgh’s early 19th-century legal and social circles.
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D.
Mary Orr
Mary Orr was an American writer and playwright best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which inspired the classic film All About Eve.
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E.
Anne Stirling
Anne Stirling is known primarily as the mother of the renowned Scottish mathematician and architect James Stirling.
- 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: Elspeth Grahame Target entity description: Elspeth Grahame was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children's book "The Wind in the Willows."
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A.
Catherine Gordon
Catherine Gordon was a Scottish heiress and the mother of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose troubled marriage and financial difficulties influenced his early life.
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B.
Elisabeth Farquharson
Elisabeth Farquharson was an 18th-century Scottish gentlewoman best known as the wife of the jurist and early evolutionary thinker James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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C.
Elizabeth Macdowall
Elizabeth Macdowall was the wife of Scottish judge and memoirist Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, and a member of Edinburgh’s early 19th-century legal and social circles.
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D.
Mary Orr
Mary Orr was an American writer and playwright best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which inspired the classic film All About Eve.
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E.
Anne Stirling
Anne Stirling is known primarily as the mother of the renowned Scottish mathematician and architect James Stirling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame ⓘ |
| spouse | Kenneth Grahame ⓘ |
| spouseCountryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouseNotableWork |
The Reluctant Dragon
ⓘ
The Wind in the Willows ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | author ⓘ |
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: Elspeth Grahame Description of subject: Elspeth Grahame was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children's book "The Wind in the Willows."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.