Bertha Kahn Wiener
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Bertha Kahn Wiener was the wife of Harvard linguist Leo Wiener and the mother of pioneering mathematician and cyberneticist Norbert Wiener.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bertha Kahn Wiener canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8759617 — 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: Bertha Kahn Wiener Context triple: [Leo Wiener, spouse, Bertha Kahn Wiener]
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A.
Judith Hellman
Judith Hellman is one of the children of the late American financier and philanthropist Warren Hellman, known for his investments and major cultural and charitable contributions, particularly in San Francisco.
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B.
Edith Weiss
Edith Weiss is a notable individual recognized for bearing the surname Weiss, though specific widely known biographical or professional details about her are not well documented.
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C.
Leonore Cohn
Leonore Cohn, later known as Leonore Annenberg, was an American philanthropist and arts patron who served as Chief of Protocol of the United States under President Ronald Reagan.
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D.
Helene Shapiro
Helene Shapiro is an American mathematician known for her work in linear algebra and matrix theory, and as a student of Olga Taussky-Todd.
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E.
Ruth Schiff
Ruth Schiff is a notable individual who shares the surname Schiff, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
- 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: Bertha Kahn Wiener Target entity description: Bertha Kahn Wiener was the wife of Harvard linguist Leo Wiener and the mother of pioneering mathematician and cyberneticist Norbert Wiener.
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A.
Judith Hellman
Judith Hellman is one of the children of the late American financier and philanthropist Warren Hellman, known for his investments and major cultural and charitable contributions, particularly in San Francisco.
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B.
Edith Weiss
Edith Weiss is a notable individual recognized for bearing the surname Weiss, though specific widely known biographical or professional details about her are not well documented.
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C.
Leonore Cohn
Leonore Cohn, later known as Leonore Annenberg, was an American philanthropist and arts patron who served as Chief of Protocol of the United States under President Ronald Reagan.
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D.
Helene Shapiro
Helene Shapiro is an American mathematician known for her work in linear algebra and matrix theory, and as a student of Olga Taussky-Todd.
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E.
Ruth Schiff
Ruth Schiff is a notable individual who shares the surname Schiff, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Norbert Wiener ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName | Wiener ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cybernetics ⓘ |
| givenName | Bertha ⓘ |
| mother | Bertha Kahn Wiener ⓘ |
| name | Bertha Kahn Wiener ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Leo Wiener
ⓘ
Norbert Wiener ⓘ |
| occupation |
homemaker
ⓘ
linguist ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| spouse |
Bertha Kahn Wiener
ⓘ
Leo Wiener ⓘ |
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: Bertha Kahn Wiener Description of subject: Bertha Kahn Wiener was the wife of Harvard linguist Leo Wiener and the mother of pioneering mathematician and cyberneticist Norbert Wiener.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.