Susan Alter
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Susan Alter was the wife of Joseph Ritner, who served as governor of Pennsylvania in the 1830s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Susan Alter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9453805 — 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: Susan Alter Context triple: [Joseph Ritner, spouse, Susan Alter]
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A.
Susan Littenberg
Susan Littenberg is a film editor known for her work on feature films such as the teen comedy "Easy A."
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B.
Susan Kohner
Susan Kohner is an American former actress best known for her Oscar-nominated role in the 1959 film "Imitation of Life."
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C.
Susan Rosenblatt
Susan Rosenblatt, better known as Susan Sontag, was an influential American writer, cultural critic, and public intellectual renowned for her essays on modern culture, art, and politics.
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D.
Arlene Litman
Arlene Litman was the mother of American actress Lisa Bonet.
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E.
Ann Biderman
Ann Biderman is an American screenwriter and television creator known for her work on crime dramas such as the film "Public Enemies" and the TV series "Southland" and "Ray Donovan."
- 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: Susan Alter Target entity description: Susan Alter was the wife of Joseph Ritner, who served as governor of Pennsylvania in the 1830s.
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A.
Susan Littenberg
Susan Littenberg is a film editor known for her work on feature films such as the teen comedy "Easy A."
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B.
Susan Kohner
Susan Kohner is an American former actress best known for her Oscar-nominated role in the 1959 film "Imitation of Life."
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C.
Susan Rosenblatt
Susan Rosenblatt, better known as Susan Sontag, was an influential American writer, cultural critic, and public intellectual renowned for her essays on modern culture, art, and politics.
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D.
Arlene Litman
Arlene Litman was the mother of American actress Lisa Bonet.
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E.
Ann Biderman
Ann Biderman is an American screenwriter and television creator known for her work on crime dramas such as the film "Public Enemies" and the TV series "Southland" and "Ray Donovan."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
public office ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Pennsylvania governor Joseph Ritner ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| residence | Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Joseph Ritner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Susan Alter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| termEnd | 1839 ⓘ |
| termStart | 1835 ⓘ |
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: Susan Alter Description of subject: Susan Alter was the wife of Joseph Ritner, who served as governor of Pennsylvania in the 1830s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Joseph Ritner