Adeline
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Adeline is the middle name of Frances Adeline Seward, an American abolitionist and the wife of U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adeline canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9636905 — 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: Adeline Context triple: [Frances Adeline Seward, middleName, Adeline]
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A.
Adeline
Adeline is the virtuous and persecuted heroine of Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Romance of the Forest."
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B.
Adeline
Adeline is the given first name of the renowned English modernist writer Virginia Woolf.
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C.
Madelaine
Madelaine is a character in the Danish crime thriller film "The Salvation."
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D.
Aline
Aline is a feminine given name of French origin, commonly used in various cultures and languages.
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E.
Adeline Fisher
Adeline Fisher was the first wife of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and a supportive figure in his early personal and artistic life.
- 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: Adeline Target entity description: Adeline is the middle name of Frances Adeline Seward, an American abolitionist and the wife of U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward.
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A.
Adeline
Adeline is the virtuous and persecuted heroine of Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Romance of the Forest."
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B.
Adeline
Adeline is the given first name of the renowned English modernist writer Virginia Woolf.
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C.
Madelaine
Madelaine is a character in the Danish crime thriller film "The Salvation."
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D.
Aline
Aline is a feminine given name of French origin, commonly used in various cultures and languages.
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E.
Adeline Fisher
Adeline Fisher was the first wife of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and a supportive figure in his early personal and artistic life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Lincoln administration through her husband
ⓘ
Republican Party politics through her husband ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Seward ⓘ |
| givenName | Frances ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriedTo | William H. Seward ⓘ |
| middleName | Adeline ⓘ |
| movement | abolitionism in the United States ⓘ |
| notableActivity | support for the Underground Railroad ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American abolitionist activities
ⓘ
hosting abolitionist meetings ⓘ |
| notableRole | wife of U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward ⓘ |
| occupation | abolitionist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
New York (state)
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
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| politicalAlignment | anti-slavery ⓘ |
| positionHeld | United States Secretary of State ⓘ |
| residence |
Albany, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Albany
Auburn, New York ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Frances Adeline Seward
ⓘ
William H. Seward ⓘ |
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: Adeline Description of subject: Adeline is the middle name of Frances Adeline Seward, an American abolitionist and the wife of U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Adeline