Rosalie Rayner
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Rosalie Rayner was an American psychologist best known for collaborating with John B. Watson on the controversial "Little Albert" experiment in behaviorism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rosalie Rayner canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5642860 — 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: Rosalie Rayner Context triple: [John B. Watson, spouse, Rosalie Rayner]
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A.
Frances Rudge
Frances Rudge was the wife of influential American film and theatre director Elia Kazan.
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B.
Elizabeth Nourse
Elizabeth Nourse was an American realist painter known for her sensitive depictions of women and rural life, who built a successful career in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Gillian Mary Baverstock
Gillian Mary Baverstock was a British author and the elder daughter of famed children's writer Enid Blyton, known for promoting and preserving her mother's literary legacy.
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D.
Rosalie Booth
Rosalie Booth was a 19th-century American woman best known as a member of the prominent Booth theatrical family, which included several famous stage actors.
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E.
Ruth Fisher
Ruth Fisher is a central character in the television drama "Six Feet Under," portrayed as the emotionally complex matriarch of the Fisher family who struggles with grief, identity, and independence.
- 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: Rosalie Rayner Target entity description: Rosalie Rayner was an American psychologist best known for collaborating with John B. Watson on the controversial "Little Albert" experiment in behaviorism.
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A.
Frances Rudge
Frances Rudge was the wife of influential American film and theatre director Elia Kazan.
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B.
Elizabeth Nourse
Elizabeth Nourse was an American realist painter known for her sensitive depictions of women and rural life, who built a successful career in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Gillian Mary Baverstock
Gillian Mary Baverstock was a British author and the elder daughter of famed children's writer Enid Blyton, known for promoting and preserving her mother's literary legacy.
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D.
Rosalie Booth
Rosalie Booth was a 19th-century American woman best known as a member of the prominent Booth theatrical family, which included several famous stage actors.
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E.
Ruth Fisher
Ruth Fisher is a central character in the television drama "Six Feet Under," portrayed as the emotionally complex matriarch of the Fisher family who struggles with grief, identity, and independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American psychologist
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human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | John B. Watson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1898-09-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1935-06-18 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | behaviorist literature ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Johns Hopkins University
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Vassar College ⓘ |
| employer | Johns Hopkins University ⓘ |
| familyName | Rayner ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
behaviorism
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psychology ⓘ |
| givenName | Rosalie ⓘ |
| hasEthicalDebate | use of infants in conditioning experiments ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Little Albert experiment
ⓘ
collaboration with John B. Watson ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | behaviorism ⓘ |
| notableStudentOrSubject | Little Albert ⓘ |
| notableWork | Little Albert experiment ⓘ |
| occupation | psychologist ⓘ |
| participantIn | Little Albert experiment ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Baltimore ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | John B. Watson ⓘ |
| workLocation | Baltimore ⓘ |
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: Rosalie Rayner Description of subject: Rosalie Rayner was an American psychologist best known for collaborating with John B. Watson on the controversial "Little Albert" experiment in behaviorism.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.