Arline Feynman
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Arline Feynman (born Arline Greenbaum) was the first wife of physicist Richard Feynman, remembered for their deeply affectionate relationship and her early death from tuberculosis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arline Feynman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1350902 — 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: Arline Feynman Context triple: [Arline Greenbaum, alsoKnownAs, Arline Feynman]
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A.
Michelle Feynman
Michelle Feynman is an American editor and author best known for compiling and curating collections of her father Richard Feynman’s letters and writings.
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B.
Gweneth Feynman
Gweneth Feynman is a member of the Feynman family, known primarily as a relative of physicist Richard Feynman and the mother of Michelle Feynman.
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C.
Kitty Oppenheimer
Kitty Oppenheimer was an American biologist and the politically active wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, known for her involvement in left-wing causes and her presence during the Manhattan Project era.
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D.
Laura Fermi
Laura Fermi was an Italian-American writer and political activist best known for her memoirs about the scientific community and her life with physicist Enrico Fermi.
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E.
Pauline Einstein
Pauline Einstein was the mother of physicist Albert Einstein and a member of the Einstein family known for her influence on his early education and musical upbringing.
- 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: Arline Feynman Target entity description: Arline Feynman (born Arline Greenbaum) was the first wife of physicist Richard Feynman, remembered for their deeply affectionate relationship and her early death from tuberculosis.
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A.
Michelle Feynman
Michelle Feynman is an American editor and author best known for compiling and curating collections of her father Richard Feynman’s letters and writings.
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B.
Gweneth Feynman
Gweneth Feynman is a member of the Feynman family, known primarily as a relative of physicist Richard Feynman and the mother of Michelle Feynman.
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C.
Kitty Oppenheimer
Kitty Oppenheimer was an American biologist and the politically active wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, known for her involvement in left-wing causes and her presence during the Manhattan Project era.
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D.
Laura Fermi
Laura Fermi was an Italian-American writer and political activist best known for her memoirs about the scientific community and her life with physicist Enrico Fermi.
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E.
Pauline Einstein
Pauline Einstein was the mother of physicist Albert Einstein and a member of the Einstein family known for her influence on his early education and musical upbringing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| birthName | Arline Greenbaum ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | tuberculosis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| describedIn |
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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What Do You Care What Other People Think? ⓘ |
| fictionalPortrayalIn | biographical works and dramatizations about Richard Feynman ⓘ |
| hasNoChildren | true ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Jewish background (inferred from surname Greenbaum and Feynman’s family background) ⓘ |
| influenced | personal life and emotional development of Richard Feynman ⓘ |
| knownFor | early death from tuberculosis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageType | love marriage ⓘ |
| name | Arline Feynman self-link ⓘ |
| notableEvent | marriage to Richard Feynman during his early scientific career ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of physicist Richard Feynman
ⓘ
her deeply affectionate relationship with Richard Feynman ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
USA
ⓘ
surface form:
United States (exact city uncertain)
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| significantRelationship | Richard Feynman ⓘ |
| spouse | Richard Feynman ⓘ |
| spouseOfNotableAward | Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation | theoretical physicist ⓘ |
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: Arline Feynman Description of subject: Arline Feynman (born Arline Greenbaum) was the first wife of physicist Richard Feynman, remembered for their deeply affectionate relationship and her early death from tuberculosis.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
What Do You Care What Other People Think?