Beatrice W. Smith
E952082
Beatrice W. Smith was the first wife of acclaimed British actor Claude Rains, to whom he was married early in his career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Beatrice W. Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10811318 — 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: Beatrice W. Smith Context triple: [Claude Rains, spouse, Beatrice W. Smith]
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A.
Bathsheba A. Benedict
Bathsheba A. Benedict was a 19th-century American philanthropist whose financial support and vision led to the establishment of Benedict College, a historically Black college in South Carolina.
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B.
Lucile E. Greene
Lucile E. Greene was an American writer and activist known for her work in civil rights and social justice.
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C.
Phoebe A. Bass
Phoebe A. Bass was the wife of Hiram Revels, the first African American U.S. senator and a prominent Reconstruction-era political and religious leader.
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D.
Louise M. Davies
Louise M. Davies was a San Francisco philanthropist whose major financial contributions to the arts led to the city’s principal symphony hall being named in her honor.
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E.
Ruth P. Johnson
Ruth P. Johnson was the wife of American character actor Elisha Cook Jr., known for his roles in classic film noir and Hollywood cinema.
- 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: Beatrice W. Smith Target entity description: Beatrice W. Smith was the first wife of acclaimed British actor Claude Rains, to whom he was married early in his career.
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A.
Bathsheba A. Benedict
Bathsheba A. Benedict was a 19th-century American philanthropist whose financial support and vision led to the establishment of Benedict College, a historically Black college in South Carolina.
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B.
Lucile E. Greene
Lucile E. Greene was an American writer and activist known for her work in civil rights and social justice.
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C.
Phoebe A. Bass
Phoebe A. Bass was the wife of Hiram Revels, the first African American U.S. senator and a prominent Reconstruction-era political and religious leader.
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D.
Louise M. Davies
Louise M. Davies was a San Francisco philanthropist whose major financial contributions to the arts led to the city’s principal symphony hall being named in her honor.
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E.
Ruth P. Johnson
Ruth P. Johnson was the wife of American character actor Elisha Cook Jr., known for his roles in classic film noir and Hollywood cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (3)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| spouse |
Beatrice W. Smith
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Claude Rains ⓘ |
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: Beatrice W. Smith Description of subject: Beatrice W. Smith was the first wife of acclaimed British actor Claude Rains, to whom he was married early in his career.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.