Lillian Smith Knox
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Lillian Smith Knox was the wife of American politician and U.S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox and a prominent figure in Washington, D.C. social circles in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lillian Smith Knox canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10142983 — 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: Lillian Smith Knox Context triple: [Philander C. Knox, spouse, Lillian Smith Knox]
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A.
Selma Florence Smith
Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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B.
Marion Boyd
Marion Boyd was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known primarily as a royal mistress of King James IV of Scotland and the mother of several of his illegitimate children.
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C.
Mary Lee Johnston
Mary Lee Johnston is a character in the film "Precious," serving as the abusive and deeply troubled mother of the protagonist, Claireece "Precious" Jones.
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D.
Mary Tayloe Lloyd
Mary Tayloe Lloyd was an American woman from a prominent Maryland family best known as the wife of Francis Scott Key, author of the U.S. national anthem.
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E.
Daisy Bates
Daisy Bates was a prominent civil rights activist and journalist who played a key leadership role in guiding and supporting the Little Rock Nine during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
- 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: Lillian Smith Knox Target entity description: Lillian Smith Knox was the wife of American politician and U.S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox and a prominent figure in Washington, D.C. social circles in the early 20th century.
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A.
Selma Florence Smith
Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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B.
Marion Boyd
Marion Boyd was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known primarily as a royal mistress of King James IV of Scotland and the mother of several of his illegitimate children.
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C.
Mary Lee Johnston
Mary Lee Johnston is a character in the film "Precious," serving as the abusive and deeply troubled mother of the protagonist, Claireece "Precious" Jones.
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D.
Mary Tayloe Lloyd
Mary Tayloe Lloyd was an American woman from a prominent Maryland family best known as the wife of Francis Scott Key, author of the U.S. national anthem.
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E.
Daisy Bates
Daisy Bates was a prominent civil rights activist and journalist who played a key leadership role in guiding and supporting the Little Rock Nine during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Knox ⓘ |
| givenName | Lillian ⓘ |
| name | Lillian Smith Knox ⓘ |
| notableFor | prominent figure in Washington, D.C. social circles ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ society hostess ⓘ |
| positionHeld | United States Secretary of State ⓘ |
| residence | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| socialStatus | member of Washington, D.C. high society ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity | political social circles of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lillian Smith Knox
ⓘ
Philander C. Knox ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | American politician ⓘ |
| spousePositionHeld | United States Secretary of State ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Lillian Smith Knox Description of subject: Lillian Smith Knox was the wife of American politician and U.S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox and a prominent figure in Washington, D.C. social circles in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.