Anna
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Anna is the given name of Anna McNeill Whistler, best known as the mother and subject of James McNeill Whistler’s famous painting "Whistler’s Mother."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anna canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11457059 — 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: Anna Context triple: [Anna McNeill Whistler, givenName, Anna]
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Anna
Anna is the given name of Anna Murray Douglass, an African American abolitionist and the first wife of Frederick Douglass.
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Anna
Anna is a key female resistance fighter in the World War II adventure film "The Guns of Navarone," whose complex loyalties and actions significantly impact the mission’s outcome.
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C.
Anna
Anna is an actress known for portraying the ambitious and manipulative Lady Macbeth in a production of Shakespeare’s tragedy "Macbeth."
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D.
Anna
Anna is a biblical figure in the Book of Tobit, known as Tobit's wife and the mother of Tobias.
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E.
Anna
Anna is the given first name of Pauli Murray, the pioneering American civil rights activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest.
- 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: Anna Target entity description: Anna is the given name of Anna McNeill Whistler, best known as the mother and subject of James McNeill Whistler’s famous painting "Whistler’s Mother."
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Anna
Anna is the given name of Anna Cornelia van Gogh, a member of the Van Gogh family.
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B.
Anna
Anna is the given name of Anne Bancroft, the acclaimed American actress best known for her role as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate."
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C.
Anna
Anna is the given first name of Eleanor Roosevelt, the influential former First Lady of the United States and human rights advocate.
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Anna
Anna is the given name of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, an influential 18th–19th century English poet, essayist, and children's author.
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E.
Anna
Anna is the given name of Anna Murray Douglass, an African American abolitionist and the first wife of Frederick Douglass.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ painting ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
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Whistler’s Mother ⓘ
linked to:
Whistler's Mother
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| birthName | Anna McNeill ⓘ |
| child | James McNeill Whistler ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator |
James McNeill Whistler
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James McNeill Whistler ⓘ |
| depicts |
Anna McNeill Whistler
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Anna McNeill Whistler ⓘ |
| familyName | Whistler ⓘ |
| givenName | Anna ⓘ |
| mother | Anna McNeill Whistler ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of James McNeill Whistler
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being the subject of the painting Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 ⓘ |
| notableRole |
model for Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
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model for Whistler’s Mother ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
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Whistler’s Mother ⓘ
linked to:
Whistler's Mother
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| notableWorkDepiction |
Whistler’s Mother
ⓘ
linked to:
Whistler's Mother
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| occupation | painter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anna McNeill Whistler
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George Washington Whistler ⓘ |
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: Anna Description of subject: Anna is the given name of Anna McNeill Whistler, best known as the mother and subject of James McNeill Whistler’s famous painting "Whistler’s Mother."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.