Donna Lindsay
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Donna Lindsay was the first wife of American medical researcher Jonas Salk, with whom she shared much of his early career and family life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donna Lindsay canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6831335 — 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: Donna Lindsay Context triple: [Jonas Salk, spouse, Donna Lindsay]
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A.
Janine Dunn
Janine Dunn is the wife of country music singer Ronnie Dunn, known for her long-term marriage and support of his career.
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B.
Donna Anderson
Donna Anderson is an American actress best known for her role in the 1960 courtroom drama film "Inherit the Wind."
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C.
Donna Moss
Donna Moss is a key fictional character on the television series "The West Wing," known for her role as Josh Lyman’s witty and capable assistant who evolves into a significant political operative.
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D.
Diane Johnston
Diane Johnston is the mother of American record producer and songwriter Bob Johnston.
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E.
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.
- 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: Donna Lindsay Target entity description: Donna Lindsay was the first wife of American medical researcher Jonas Salk, with whom she shared much of his early career and family life.
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A.
Janine Dunn
Janine Dunn is the wife of country music singer Ronnie Dunn, known for her long-term marriage and support of his career.
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B.
Donna Anderson
Donna Anderson is an American actress best known for her role in the 1960 courtroom drama film "Inherit the Wind."
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C.
Donna Moss
Donna Moss is a key fictional character on the television series "The West Wing," known for her role as Josh Lyman’s witty and capable assistant who evolves into a significant political operative.
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D.
Diane Johnston
Diane Johnston is the mother of American record producer and songwriter Bob Johnston.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
medical researcher ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Jonas Salk ⓘ |
| occupation | spouse of a medical researcher ⓘ |
| sharesEarlyCareerPeriodWith | Jonas Salk ⓘ |
| sharesFamilyLifeWith | Jonas Salk ⓘ |
| spouse |
Donna Lindsay
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Jonas Salk ⓘ |
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: Donna Lindsay Description of subject: Donna Lindsay was the first wife of American medical researcher Jonas Salk, with whom she shared much of his early career and family life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Donna Lindsay