Diane Shaughnessy
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Diane Shaughnessy is known as the wife of renowned American jazz drummer Ed Shaughnessy, who was a longtime member of Doc Severinsen’s band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
All labels observed (1)
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| Diane Shaughnessy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13944643 — 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: Diane Shaughnessy Context triple: [Ed Shaughnessy, spouse, Diane Shaughnessy]
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A.
Diane Freeling
Diane Freeling is the mother and central protagonist in the 1982 horror film "Poltergeist," known for her desperate efforts to save her daughter from malevolent supernatural forces.
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B.
Elaine Herzberg
Elaine Herzberg was a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, who became the first person killed by a self-driving car when she was struck by an autonomous Uber test vehicle in 2018.
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C.
Donna Dubrow
Donna Dubrow is a film producer best known for her work in the 1990s and for her former marriage to action director John McTiernan.
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D.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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E.
Nancy Kurshan
Nancy Kurshan is an American activist and writer best known as a co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies) and for her work in prison abolition and social justice movements.
- 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: Diane Shaughnessy Target entity description: Diane Shaughnessy is known as the wife of renowned American jazz drummer Ed Shaughnessy, who was a longtime member of Doc Severinsen’s band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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A.
Diane Freeling
Diane Freeling is the mother and central protagonist in the 1982 horror film "Poltergeist," known for her desperate efforts to save her daughter from malevolent supernatural forces.
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B.
Elaine Herzberg
Elaine Herzberg was a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, who became the first person killed by a self-driving car when she was struck by an autonomous Uber test vehicle in 2018.
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C.
Donna Dubrow
Donna Dubrow is a film producer best known for her work in the 1990s and for her former marriage to action director John McTiernan.
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D.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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E.
Nancy Kurshan
Nancy Kurshan is an American activist and writer best known as a co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies) and for her work in prison abolition and social justice movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.