Nancy Carlson
E18291
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nancy Carlson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5721 — 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: Nancy Carlson Context triple: [Tim Berners-Lee, spouse, Nancy Carlson]
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A.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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C.
Katherine Puening
Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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D.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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E.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
- 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: Nancy Carlson Target entity description: Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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A.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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C.
Katherine Puening
Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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D.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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E.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee ⓘ |
| spouse |
Nancy Carlson
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Tim Berners-Lee ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
Nancy Carlson
ⓘ
Tim Berners-Lee ⓘ |
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: Nancy Carlson Description of subject: Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.