Annette Lerner
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Annette Lerner is a Washington, D.C.–area philanthropist and matriarch of the Lerner family, known for their real estate empire and former ownership of the Washington Nationals baseball team.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Annette Lerner canonical | 4 |
| Annette M. Lerner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T159752 — 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: Annette Lerner Context triple: [Lerner family, member, Annette Lerner]
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A.
Arline Greenbaum
Arline Greenbaum was the first wife of physicist Richard Feynman, remembered for their deeply devoted relationship during her struggle with tuberculosis in the 1940s.
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B.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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C.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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D.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
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E.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
- 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: Annette Lerner Target entity description: Annette Lerner is a Washington, D.C.–area philanthropist and matriarch of the Lerner family, known for their real estate empire and former ownership of the Washington Nationals baseball team.
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A.
Arline Greenbaum
Arline Greenbaum was the first wife of physicist Richard Feynman, remembered for their deeply devoted relationship during her struggle with tuberculosis in the 1940s.
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B.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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C.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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D.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
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E.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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philanthropist ⓘ |
| associatedWithIndustry | real estate ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization | Washington Nationals ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| family | Lerner family ⓘ |
| familyBusiness | Lerner Enterprises ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | philanthropy ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the Lerner family real estate business
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association with the former ownership of the Washington Nationals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Annette Lerner self-link ⓘ |
| notableFamilyAsset | former controlling interest in the Washington Nationals ⓘ |
| notableFor | philanthropy in the Washington, D.C. area ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Maryland
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| regionOfPhilanthropy |
Washington metropolitan area
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surface form:
Greater Washington, D.C. area
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| residence |
Washington metropolitan area
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surface form:
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
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| roleInFamily | matriarch of the Lerner family ⓘ |
| spouse | Ted Lerner ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor | founder of Lerner Enterprises ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | real estate developer ⓘ |
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: Annette Lerner Description of subject: Annette Lerner is a Washington, D.C.–area philanthropist and matriarch of the Lerner family, known for their real estate empire and former ownership of the Washington Nationals baseball team.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Annette M. Lerner