Laura Merriman
E580718
Laura Merriman is known as the spouse of Dwight Merriman, the co-founder and former CEO of DoubleClick and co-founder of MongoDB.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laura Merriman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3482247 — 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: Laura Merriman Context triple: [Dwight Merriman, spouse, Laura Merriman]
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A.
Laura Bickford
Laura Bickford is an American film producer best known for her work on acclaimed independent and studio films, including the Oscar-winning drama "Traffic."
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B.
Maureen Earl
Maureen Earl is best known as the wife of American novelist Clifford Irving, who gained notoriety for his fraudulent "autobiography" of Howard Hughes.
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C.
Sherrill Milnes
Sherrill Milnes is an acclaimed American operatic baritone renowned for his powerful voice and leading roles in major international opera houses, particularly the Metropolitan Opera.
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D.
Maureen Swanson
Maureen Swanson was a British actress active in the 1950s, known for her roles in comedy and drama films before later becoming the Countess of Dudley.
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E.
Laura Berwick
Laura Berwick is a film producer best known for her work on Kenneth Branagh’s acclaimed 2021 drama "Belfast."
- 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: Laura Merriman Target entity description: Laura Merriman is known as the spouse of Dwight Merriman, the co-founder and former CEO of DoubleClick and co-founder of MongoDB.
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A.
Laura Bickford
Laura Bickford is an American film producer best known for her work on acclaimed independent and studio films, including the Oscar-winning drama "Traffic."
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B.
Maureen Earl
Maureen Earl is best known as the wife of American novelist Clifford Irving, who gained notoriety for his fraudulent "autobiography" of Howard Hughes.
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C.
Sherrill Milnes
Sherrill Milnes is an acclaimed American operatic baritone renowned for his powerful voice and leading roles in major international opera houses, particularly the Metropolitan Opera.
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D.
Maureen Swanson
Maureen Swanson was a British actress active in the 1950s, known for her roles in comedy and drama films before later becoming the Countess of Dudley.
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E.
Laura Berwick
Laura Berwick is a film producer best known for her work on Kenneth Branagh’s acclaimed 2021 drama "Belfast."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
DoubleClick
ⓘ
MongoDB ⓘ |
| formerChiefExecutiveOfficerOf | DoubleClick ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
Dwight Merriman
ⓘ
Laura Merriman ⓘ |
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: Laura Merriman Description of subject: Laura Merriman is known as the spouse of Dwight Merriman, the co-founder and former CEO of DoubleClick and co-founder of MongoDB.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Laura Merriman