Alberta Hesse
E855318
Alberta Hesse was the wife of American crime novelist Jim Thompson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alberta Hesse canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10322597 — 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: Alberta Hesse Context triple: [Jim Thompson, spouse, Alberta Hesse]
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A.
Johannes Hesse
Johannes Hesse was a Baltic German missionary and publisher best known as the father of the Nobel Prize–winning author Hermann Hesse.
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B.
Madeleine Morgenstern
Madeleine Morgenstern was a French film editor and the first wife of acclaimed director François Truffaut, with whom she was closely associated during the early years of the French New Wave.
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C.
Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse was a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and painter best known for works like "Steppenwolf," "Siddhartha," and "The Glass Bead Game," which explore themes of self-discovery, spirituality, and individuality.
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D.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ethel Lilian Voynich was an Anglo-Irish novelist, musician, and revolutionary best known for her popular 1897 novel "The Gadfly."
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E.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a German-born writer and pioneering advocate for international ocean governance and the law of the sea.
- 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: Alberta Hesse Target entity description: Alberta Hesse was the wife of American crime novelist Jim Thompson.
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A.
Johannes Hesse
Johannes Hesse was a Baltic German missionary and publisher best known as the father of the Nobel Prize–winning author Hermann Hesse.
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B.
Madeleine Morgenstern
Madeleine Morgenstern was a French film editor and the first wife of acclaimed director François Truffaut, with whom she was closely associated during the early years of the French New Wave.
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C.
Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse was a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and painter best known for works like "Steppenwolf," "Siddhartha," and "The Glass Bead Game," which explore themes of self-discovery, spirituality, and individuality.
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D.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ethel Lilian Voynich was an Anglo-Irish novelist, musician, and revolutionary best known for her popular 1897 novel "The Gadfly."
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E.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a German-born writer and pioneering advocate for international ocean governance and the law of the sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of American crime novelist Jim Thompson ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alberta Hesse
ⓘ
Jim Thompson ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
Alberta Hesse
ⓘ
Jim Thompson ⓘ |
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: Alberta Hesse Description of subject: Alberta Hesse was the wife of American crime novelist Jim Thompson.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.