Jeppson
E201054
Jeppson is the maiden surname of American psychiatrist and science fiction writer Janet Asimov.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeppson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1800329 — 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: Jeppson Context triple: [Janet Asimov, familyName, Jeppson]
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A.
Jacobs
Jacobs is a surname most notably associated with Harriet Jacobs, the African-American writer and abolitionist who authored the influential slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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B.
Howden
Howden is a residential neighbourhood within the town of Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland.
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C.
Howden
Howden is a historic market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its medieval Minster and traditional town centre.
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D.
Groves
Groves is a surname most notably associated with U.S. Army General Leslie R. Groves Jr., who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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E.
Dunlap
Dunlap is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," appearing as one of the townspeople involved in the trial’s tense, small-town atmosphere.
- 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: Jeppson Target entity description: Jeppson is the maiden surname of American psychiatrist and science fiction writer Janet Asimov.
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A.
Jacobs
Jacobs is a surname most notably associated with Harriet Jacobs, the African-American writer and abolitionist who authored the influential slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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B.
Howden
Howden is a residential neighbourhood within the town of Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland.
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C.
Howden
Howden is a historic market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its medieval Minster and traditional town centre.
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D.
Groves
Groves is a surname most notably associated with U.S. Army General Leslie R. Groves Jr., who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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E.
Dunlap
Dunlap is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," appearing as one of the townspeople involved in the trial’s tense, small-town atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| birthName | Janet Opal Jeppson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasSpellingVariant |
Jepsen
ⓘ
Jepson ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| maidenNameOf | Janet Asimov ⓘ |
| maidenSurname | Jeppson self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| usedBy | Janet Asimov ⓘ |
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: Jeppson Description of subject: Jeppson is the maiden surname of American psychiatrist and science fiction writer Janet Asimov.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Janet Asimov