Dr. John C. Traphagan (first husband)
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Dr. John C. Traphagan is an American academic and anthropologist known for his work on Japanese culture and religion, and was the first husband of author Anne Spencer Lindbergh.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. John C. Traphagan (divorced) | 1 |
| Dr. John C. Traphagan (first husband) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2776054 — 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: Dr. John C. Traphagan (first husband) Context triple: [Anne Spencer Lindbergh, spouse, Dr. John C. Traphagan (first husband)]
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A.
Tom Kempinski (former spouse)
Tom Kempinski was a British playwright and actor best known for his award-winning play "Duet for One."
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B.
George Merrill (divorced)
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known as one half of the duo Boy Meets Girl, co-writing Whitney Houston hits like "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
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C.
Jane McIntosh (divorced)
Jane McIntosh is best known as the former wife of English lyricist and author Tim Rice.
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D.
Susan Brown (divorced)
Susan Brown is the former wife of American businessman and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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E.
Julia Bingham (divorced)
Julia Bingham is the former wife of American screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.
- 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: Dr. John C. Traphagan (first husband) Target entity description: Dr. John C. Traphagan is an American academic and anthropologist known for his work on Japanese culture and religion, and was the first husband of author Anne Spencer Lindbergh.
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A.
Tom Kempinski (former spouse)
Tom Kempinski was a British playwright and actor best known for his award-winning play "Duet for One."
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B.
George Merrill (divorced)
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known as one half of the duo Boy Meets Girl, co-writing Whitney Houston hits like "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
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C.
Jane McIntosh (divorced)
Jane McIntosh is best known as the former wife of English lyricist and author Tim Rice.
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D.
Susan Brown (divorced)
Susan Brown is the former wife of American businessman and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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E.
Julia Bingham (divorced)
Julia Bingham is the former wife of American screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American anthropologist
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academic ⓘ anthropologist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Traphagan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Japanese studies
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anthropology ⓘ cultural anthropology ⓘ religious studies ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
anthropology of Japan
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study of religion in Japan ⓘ |
| hasSpouseOrder | first husband of Anne Spencer Lindbergh ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
research on Japanese culture
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research on Japanese religion ⓘ scholarship on contemporary Japanese society ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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researcher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | university professor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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surface form:
Anne Spencer Lindbergh
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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: Dr. John C. Traphagan (first husband) Description of subject: Dr. John C. Traphagan is an American academic and anthropologist known for his work on Japanese culture and religion, and was the first husband of author Anne Spencer Lindbergh.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.