Martha Kearney
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Martha Kearney is a British journalist and broadcaster best known as a prominent presenter on BBC radio and television, including flagship programmes such as Woman’s Hour and The World at One.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martha Kearney canonical | 2 |
| Martha Catherine Kearney | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4028505 — 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: Martha Kearney Context triple: [Woman's Hour, notablePresenter, Martha Kearney]
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A.
Margaret Kelly
Margaret Kelly is an American artist and the first wife of actor and comedian Bill Murray, to whom she was married from 1981 to 1996.
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B.
Mary Cleary
Mary Cleary was the wife of Commodore John Barry, an early U.S. naval officer often called the "Father of the American Navy."
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C.
Martha Stevens
Martha Stevens is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Stevens.
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D.
Martha Hunt
Martha Hunt is an American fashion model best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, including serving as a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
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E.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
- 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: Martha Kearney Target entity description: Martha Kearney is a British journalist and broadcaster best known as a prominent presenter on BBC radio and television, including flagship programmes such as Woman’s Hour and The World at One.
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A.
Margaret Kelly
Margaret Kelly is an American artist and the first wife of actor and comedian Bill Murray, to whom she was married from 1981 to 1996.
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B.
Mary Cleary
Mary Cleary was the wife of Commodore John Barry, an early U.S. naval officer often called the "Father of the American Navy."
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C.
Martha Stevens
Martha Stevens is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Stevens.
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D.
Martha Hunt
Martha Hunt is an American fashion model best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, including serving as a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
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E.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadcaster
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ radio presenter ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA nomination
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Political Studies Association Broadcaster of the Year ⓘ |
| birthName |
Martha Catherine Kearney
ⓘ
linked to:
Martha Kearney
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt | St Anne's College, Oxford ⓘ |
| employer |
BBC
ⓘ
BBC Radio 4 ⓘ BBC Television ⓘ
linked to:
BBC television services
Channel 4 (former) ⓘ
linked to:
Channel 4
|
| familyName | Kearney ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
broadcast journalism
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political journalism ⓘ radio broadcasting ⓘ television broadcasting ⓘ |
| genre |
current affairs
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news ⓘ |
| givenName | Martha ⓘ |
| hasRole |
presenter of The World at One
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presenter of Today on BBC Radio 4 ⓘ presenter of Woman's Hour ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn |
BBC Radio 4 news and current affairs programmes
ⓘ
linked to:
BBC Radio 4
BBC television political programmes ⓘ
linked to:
BBC television programmes
Newsnight (BBC Two) ⓘ
linked to:
Newsnight
|
| knownFor |
presenting The World at One on BBC Radio 4
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presenting Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 ⓘ presenting the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Martha Kearney ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The World at One
ⓘ
Today (BBC Radio 4 programme) ⓘ Woman's Hour ⓘ |
| occupation |
broadcaster
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ radio presenter ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| parent | Hugh Kearney ⓘ |
| residence |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| spouse | Chris Shaw ⓘ |
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: Martha Kearney Description of subject: Martha Kearney is a British journalist and broadcaster best known as a prominent presenter on BBC radio and television, including flagship programmes such as Woman’s Hour and The World at One.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Martha Kearney