Thelma Schwartz
E211091
Thelma Schwartz was the wife of notorious American organized crime figure Meyer Lansky.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thelma Schwartz canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1046611 — 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: Thelma Schwartz Context triple: [Meyer Lansky, spouse, Thelma Schwartz]
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A.
Susan Goldmark
Susan Goldmark is an American development specialist and former World Bank official known for her work on infrastructure and social development projects, and for being married to Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Kai Bird.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Esther Bubley
Esther Bubley was an American documentary photographer best known for her intimate, human-centered images of everyday life in mid-20th-century America, particularly during and after World War II.
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E.
Esther Ross
Esther Ross was the woman who served as the sponsor and ceremonial namesake figure for the U.S. Navy battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) at its christening.
- 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: Thelma Schwartz Target entity description: Thelma Schwartz was the wife of notorious American organized crime figure Meyer Lansky.
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A.
Susan Goldmark
Susan Goldmark is an American development specialist and former World Bank official known for her work on infrastructure and social development projects, and for being married to Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Kai Bird.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Esther Bubley
Esther Bubley was an American documentary photographer best known for her intimate, human-centered images of everyday life in mid-20th-century America, particularly during and after World War II.
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E.
Esther Ross
Esther Ross was the woman who served as the sponsor and ceremonial namesake figure for the U.S. Navy battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) at its christening.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of organized crime figure Meyer Lansky ⓘ |
| occupation | organized crime figure ⓘ |
| spouse |
Meyer Lansky
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Thelma Schwartz ⓘ |
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: Thelma Schwartz Description of subject: Thelma Schwartz was the wife of notorious American organized crime figure Meyer Lansky.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Thelma Schwartz