Sarah Eleanor Pennington
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Sarah Eleanor Pennington was the wife of Captain Edward John Smith, the British naval officer best known as the captain of the RMS Titanic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Eleanor Pennington canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10226394 — 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: Sarah Eleanor Pennington Context triple: [Edward John Smith, spouse, Sarah Eleanor Pennington]
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A.
Eleanor Whitesell
Eleanor Whitesell is the daughter of American media personality and helicopter pilot Lauren Sánchez and talent agent Patrick Whitesell.
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B.
Eleanor Pittman
Eleanor Pittman is known as the first wife of acclaimed American stage and film actor Jason Robards.
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C.
Maud Humphrey
Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
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D.
Mary Adelaide Barron
Mary Adelaide Barron was the first wife of American hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, whom he married in 1925 before their later divorce.
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E.
Eleanor Gates
Eleanor Gates is the daughter of Robert M. Gates, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Director of Central Intelligence.
- 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: Sarah Eleanor Pennington Target entity description: Sarah Eleanor Pennington was the wife of Captain Edward John Smith, the British naval officer best known as the captain of the RMS Titanic.
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A.
Eleanor Whitesell
Eleanor Whitesell is the daughter of American media personality and helicopter pilot Lauren Sánchez and talent agent Patrick Whitesell.
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B.
Eleanor Pittman
Eleanor Pittman is known as the first wife of acclaimed American stage and film actor Jason Robards.
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C.
Maud Humphrey
Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
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D.
Mary Adelaide Barron
Mary Adelaide Barron was the first wife of American hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, whom he married in 1925 before their later divorce.
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E.
Eleanor Gates
Eleanor Gates is the daughter of Robert M. Gates, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Director of Central Intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
human ⓘ sea captain ⓘ |
| name | Sarah Eleanor Pennington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | captain of the RMS Titanic ⓘ |
| spouse |
Edward John Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sarah Eleanor Pennington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOfNationality | British ⓘ |
| spouseOfNotableFor | captain of the RMS Titanic ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation |
naval officer
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sea captain ⓘ |
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: Sarah Eleanor Pennington Description of subject: Sarah Eleanor Pennington was the wife of Captain Edward John Smith, the British naval officer best known as the captain of the RMS Titanic.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Edward John Smith