Esme O'Brien Sarnoff
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Esme O'Brien Sarnoff was the wife of influential American record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Esme O'Brien Sarnoff canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T386525 — 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: Esme O'Brien Sarnoff Context triple: [John H. Hammond Jr., spouse, Esme O'Brien Sarnoff]
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A.
David Sarnoff
David Sarnoff was a pioneering American radio and television executive who led RCA and helped shape the development and commercialization of broadcast media in the 20th century.
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B.
Walter A. Brown
Walter A. Brown was an American sports executive best known for helping establish the NBA and building the Boston Celtics into a championship franchise.
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C.
George Palmer Putnam
George Palmer Putnam was a prominent 19th-century American publisher and bookseller who played a key role in shaping the U.S. literary and cultural landscape.
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D.
Lucile Salter Packard
Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
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E.
Henry Billings Brown
Henry Billings Brown was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court best known for authoring the decision that upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
- 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: Esme O'Brien Sarnoff Target entity description: Esme O'Brien Sarnoff was the wife of influential American record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond Jr.
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A.
David Sarnoff
David Sarnoff was a pioneering American radio and television executive who led RCA and helped shape the development and commercialization of broadcast media in the 20th century.
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B.
Walter A. Brown
Walter A. Brown was an American sports executive best known for helping establish the NBA and building the Boston Celtics into a championship franchise.
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C.
George Palmer Putnam
George Palmer Putnam was a prominent 19th-century American publisher and bookseller who played a key role in shaping the U.S. literary and cultural landscape.
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D.
Lucile Salter Packard
Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
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E.
Henry Billings Brown
Henry Billings Brown was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court best known for authoring the decision that upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of American record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond Jr. ⓘ |
| occupation |
record producer
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talent scout ⓘ |
| spouse |
Esme O'Brien Sarnoff
self-linksurface differs
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John H. Hammond Jr. ⓘ |
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: Esme O'Brien Sarnoff Description of subject: Esme O'Brien Sarnoff was the wife of influential American record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond Jr.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John H. Hammond Jr.