Linda Jean Peterson (divorced)
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Linda Jean Peterson is the former wife of Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Linda Jean Peterson (divorced) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2228109 — 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: Linda Jean Peterson (divorced) Context triple: [Kip Thorne, spouse, Linda Jean Peterson (divorced)]
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A.
Susan Brown (divorced)
Susan Brown is the former wife of American businessman and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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B.
Darlene Pratt
Darlene Pratt was the wife of pioneering stop-motion animator and special effects artist Willis H. O’Brien.
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C.
Linda Arvidson
Linda Arvidson was an early American silent film actress and writer, best known for her work in pioneering films of the 1900s and her association with director D. W. Griffith.
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D.
Jane McIntosh (divorced)
Jane McIntosh is best known as the former wife of English lyricist and author Tim Rice.
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E.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
- 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: Linda Jean Peterson (divorced) Target entity description: Linda Jean Peterson is the former wife of Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.
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A.
Susan Brown (divorced)
Susan Brown is the former wife of American businessman and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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B.
Darlene Pratt
Darlene Pratt was the wife of pioneering stop-motion animator and special effects artist Willis H. O’Brien.
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C.
Linda Arvidson
Linda Arvidson was an early American silent film actress and writer, best known for her work in pioneering films of the 1900s and her association with director D. W. Griffith.
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D.
Jane McIntosh (divorced)
Jane McIntosh is best known as the former wife of English lyricist and author Tim Rice.
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E.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the former wife of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Kip Thorne ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Kip Thorne
ⓘ
Linda Jean Peterson ⓘ |
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: Linda Jean Peterson (divorced) Description of subject: Linda Jean Peterson is the former wife of Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.