Rosemary Wolff
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Rosemary Wolff is the mother of American memoirist and novelist Tobias Wolff, known from his autobiographical work "This Boy's Life."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rosemary Wolff canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11995311 — 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: Rosemary Wolff Context triple: [Tobias "Toby" Wolff, hasMother, Rosemary Wolff]
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A.
Rosemary Burrows
Rosemary Burrows is a costume designer best known for her work on the British comedy film "Carry On Cleo."
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B.
Rosemary Woodruff
Rosemary Woodruff was an American counterculture figure and activist best known for her involvement in the 1960s psychedelic movement alongside Timothy Leary.
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C.
Ann Wolfe
Ann Wolfe is a former American professional boxer renowned for her formidable punching power and multiple world titles across several weight classes.
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D.
Rosemary Langer
Rosemary Langer is known primarily as the daughter of American historian and Harvard professor William L. Langer.
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E.
Rosemarie DeWitt
Rosemarie DeWitt is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including prominent roles in projects like "Rachel Getting Married," "United States of Tara," and "La La Land."
- 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: Rosemary Wolff Target entity description: Rosemary Wolff is the mother of American memoirist and novelist Tobias Wolff, known from his autobiographical work "This Boy's Life."
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A.
Rosemary Burrows
Rosemary Burrows is a costume designer best known for her work on the British comedy film "Carry On Cleo."
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B.
Rosemary Woodruff
Rosemary Woodruff was an American counterculture figure and activist best known for her involvement in the 1960s psychedelic movement alongside Timothy Leary.
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C.
Ann Wolfe
Ann Wolfe is a former American professional boxer renowned for her formidable punching power and multiple world titles across several weight classes.
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D.
Rosemary Langer
Rosemary Langer is known primarily as the daughter of American historian and Harvard professor William L. Langer.
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E.
Rosemarie DeWitt
Rosemarie DeWitt is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including prominent roles in projects like "Rachel Getting Married," "United States of Tara," and "La La Land."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mother ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedIn |
In Pharaoh's Army (indirectly, as Tobias Wolff's mother)
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This Boy's Life ⓘ |
| familyName | Wolff ⓘ |
| givenName | Rosemary ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Geoffrey Wolff
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Tobias Wolff ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central figure in Tobias Wolff's memoir This Boy's Life ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of Geoffrey Wolff
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being the mother of Tobias Wolff ⓘ |
| notableWork |
This Boy's Life (as a central figure)
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linked to:
This Boy's Life
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| occupation |
secretary
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waitress ⓘ |
| residence |
Concrete, Washington
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Florida ⓘ Seattle ⓘ Utah ⓘ Washington (state) ⓘ
linked to:
Washington
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Arthur Samuels (first husband)
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Dwight Hansen (stepfather to Tobias, per memoir) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Rosemary Wolff Description of subject: Rosemary Wolff is the mother of American memoirist and novelist Tobias Wolff, known from his autobiographical work "This Boy's Life."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.