Beatrice Silverman
E162164
Beatrice Silverman was the first wife of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, whom he married while a student at Harvard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beatrice Silverman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T472959 — 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 Silverman Context triple: [Norman Mailer, spouse, Beatrice Silverman]
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A.
Millicent Siegel
Millicent Siegel is the daughter of notorious American mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and has been involved in preserving and discussing her father's controversial legacy.
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B.
Eleanor Baum
Eleanor Baum is an American electrical engineer and pioneering academic leader recognized for breaking gender barriers in engineering education and professional societies.
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C.
Nina Bernstein
Nina Bernstein is the daughter of renowned American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, known for helping preserve and promote her father's musical legacy.
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D.
Gertrude Blugerman
Gertrude Blugerman was the first wife of renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, to whom he was married from 1942 until their divorce in 1973.
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E.
Rachel Marron
Rachel Marron is a famous pop singer and actress who becomes the client and love interest of a former Secret Service agent in the romantic thriller film "The Bodyguard."
- 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 Silverman Target entity description: Beatrice Silverman was the first wife of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, whom he married while a student at Harvard.
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A.
Millicent Siegel
Millicent Siegel is the daughter of notorious American mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and has been involved in preserving and discussing her father's controversial legacy.
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B.
Eleanor Baum
Eleanor Baum is an American electrical engineer and pioneering academic leader recognized for breaking gender barriers in engineering education and professional societies.
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C.
Nina Bernstein
Nina Bernstein is the daughter of renowned American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, known for helping preserve and promote her father's musical legacy.
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D.
Gertrude Blugerman
Gertrude Blugerman was the first wife of renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, to whom he was married from 1942 until their divorce in 1973.
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E.
Rachel Marron
Rachel Marron is a famous pop singer and actress who becomes the client and love interest of a former Secret Service agent in the romantic thriller film "The Bodyguard."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Harvard University ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Norman Mailer ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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novelist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Beatrice Silverman
self-linksurface differs
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Norman Mailer ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of Norman Mailer ⓘ |
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 Silverman Description of subject: Beatrice Silverman was the first wife of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, whom he married while a student at Harvard.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Norman Mailer