Dorothy E. Clark
E646317
Dorothy E. Clark was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun and a long-time partner in his personal and professional life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy E. Clark canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5556409 — 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: Dorothy E. Clark Context triple: [Harry A. Blackmun, spouse, Dorothy E. Clark]
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A.
Dorothy Ayer Gardner
Dorothy Ayer Gardner was the biological mother of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, originally named Leslie Lynch King Jr.
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B.
Dorothy Lyman
Dorothy Lyman is an American actress and director best known for her roles on the soap opera "All My Children" and the sitcom "Mama's Family."
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C.
Lucile E. Greene
Lucile E. Greene was an American writer and activist known for her work in civil rights and social justice.
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D.
Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Dorothy Clarke Wilson was an American author and playwright best known for her historical and biographical novels, including the work that inspired the film "The Ten Commandments."
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E.
Dorothy M. Johnson
Dorothy M. Johnson was an American Western author best known for her influential short stories that inspired classic films such as "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "A Man Called Horse."
- 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: Dorothy E. Clark Target entity description: Dorothy E. Clark was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun and a long-time partner in his personal and professional life.
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A.
Dorothy Ayer Gardner
Dorothy Ayer Gardner was the biological mother of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, originally named Leslie Lynch King Jr.
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B.
Dorothy Lyman
Dorothy Lyman is an American actress and director best known for her roles on the soap opera "All My Children" and the sitcom "Mama's Family."
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C.
Lucile E. Greene
Lucile E. Greene was an American writer and activist known for her work in civil rights and social justice.
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D.
Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Dorothy Clarke Wilson was an American author and playwright best known for her historical and biographical novels, including the work that inspired the film "The Ten Commandments."
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E.
Dorothy M. Johnson
Dorothy M. Johnson was an American Western author best known for her influential short stories that inspired classic films such as "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "A Man Called Horse."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun ⓘ |
| partnerInLifeOf | Harry A. Blackmun ⓘ |
| partnerInProfessionalLifeOf | Harry A. Blackmun ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| spouse |
Dorothy E. Clark
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Harry A. Blackmun ⓘ |
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: Dorothy E. Clark Description of subject: Dorothy E. Clark was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun and a long-time partner in his personal and professional life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dorothy E. Clark