Peggy Dowd
E540913
Peggy Dowd is best known as the mother of Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dowd | 3 |
| Peggy Dowd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5702288 — 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: Peggy Dowd Context triple: [Maureen Dowd, parent, Peggy Dowd]
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A.
Joan O’Farrell
Joan O’Farrell was the wife of Irish politician and former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
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B.
Virginia Weidler
Virginia Weidler was an American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best remembered for her witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Philadelphia Story."
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C.
Nancy Dowd
Nancy Dowd is an American screenwriter best known for her Oscar-winning work on the anti-war film "Coming Home" and for writing the cult hockey movie "Slap Shot."
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D.
Nancy Fallon
Nancy Fallon is the teenage protagonist of the film "Teenage Rebel," whose struggles with family and identity drive the story’s emotional conflict.
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E.
Ann Smiley
Ann Smiley is the unfaithful and enigmatic wife of British intelligence officer George Smiley in John le Carré’s spy novels.
- 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: Peggy Dowd Target entity description: Peggy Dowd is best known as the mother of Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
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A.
Joan O’Farrell
Joan O’Farrell was the wife of Irish politician and former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
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B.
Virginia Weidler
Virginia Weidler was an American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best remembered for her witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Philadelphia Story."
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C.
Nancy Dowd
Nancy Dowd is an American screenwriter best known for her Oscar-winning work on the anti-war film "Coming Home" and for writing the cult hockey movie "Slap Shot."
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D.
Nancy Fallon
Nancy Fallon is the teenage protagonist of the film "Teenage Rebel," whose struggles with family and identity drive the story’s emotional conflict.
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E.
Ann Smiley
Ann Smiley is the unfaithful and enigmatic wife of British intelligence officer George Smiley in John le Carré’s spy novels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pulitzer Prize ⓘ |
| child | Maureen Dowd ⓘ |
| employer | The New York Times ⓘ |
| mother | Peggy Dowd ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Maureen Dowd ⓘ |
| occupation | columnist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Peggy Dowd Description of subject: Peggy Dowd is best known as the mother of Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.