Dr. James Webb
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Dr. James Webb was an American physician best known as the father of Lucy Webb Hayes, the First Lady of the United States and wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. James Webb canonical | 3 |
| James Webb | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4989912 — 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. James Webb Context triple: [Lucy Webb Hayes, father, Dr. James Webb]
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A.
James E. Webb
James E. Webb was an American government official who served as NASA’s second administrator, overseeing key early space missions during the 1960s.
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B.
Vance D. Brand
Vance D. Brand is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and served as command module pilot on the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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C.
Robert Wisdom
Robert Wisdom is an American actor best known for his role as Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin on the television series "The Wire."
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D.
Theodore Washington Brevard
Theodore Washington Brevard was a 19th-century Florida politician and judge after whom Brevard County, Florida, is named.
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E.
Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
Christopher C. Kraft Jr. was a pioneering NASA engineer and the agency’s first flight director, instrumental in shaping mission control and the success of early U.S. human spaceflight programs.
- 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. James Webb Target entity description: Dr. James Webb was an American physician best known as the father of Lucy Webb Hayes, the First Lady of the United States and wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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A.
James E. Webb
James E. Webb was an American government official who served as NASA’s second administrator, overseeing key early space missions during the 1960s.
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B.
Vance D. Brand
Vance D. Brand is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and served as command module pilot on the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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C.
Robert Wisdom
Robert Wisdom is an American actor best known for his role as Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin on the television series "The Wire."
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D.
Theodore Washington Brevard
Theodore Washington Brevard was a 19th-century Florida politician and judge after whom Brevard County, Florida, is named.
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E.
Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
Christopher C. Kraft Jr. was a pioneering NASA engineer and the agency’s first flight director, instrumental in shaping mission control and the success of early U.S. human spaceflight programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| birthName |
Lucy Webb
ⓘ
linked to:
Lucy Ware Webb
|
| child | Lucy Webb Hayes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Webb ⓘ |
| father |
James Webb
ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. James Webb
|
| givenName | Lucy ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | doctor ⓘ |
| name | James Webb ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | Lucy Webb Hayes ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Lucy Webb Hayes ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Rutherford B. Hayes ⓘ |
| occupation | physician ⓘ |
| officeContested | President of the United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
First Lady of the United States
ⓘ
President of the United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lucy Webb Hayes
ⓘ
Rutherford B. Hayes ⓘ |
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. James Webb Description of subject: Dr. James Webb was an American physician best known as the father of Lucy Webb Hayes, the First Lady of the United States and wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.