Faye Haxby Kesey
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Faye Haxby Kesey was the longtime wife and partner of American novelist Ken Kesey, known for her quiet but central role in the countercultural community that formed around him in Oregon.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Faye Haxby Kesey canonical | 1 |
| Ken Kesey’s former wife, Faye Kesey McMurtry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10339626 — 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: Faye Haxby Kesey Context triple: [Ken Kesey, spouse, Faye Haxby Kesey]
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A.
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey was an American novelist and countercultural figure best known for his influential 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and his role in the 1960s psychedelic movement.
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B.
Ralph Keyes
Ralph Keyes is a former Irish rugby union fly-half best known for being the top points scorer at the 1991 Rugby World Cup.
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C.
Patrick "Lights" Leary
Patrick "Lights" Leary is the fictional former heavyweight boxing champion and family man at the center of the TV drama series "Lights Out."
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D.
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer best known for advocating the therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs during the 1960s counterculture movement.
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E.
Robert Keyes
Robert Keyes was an English Catholic conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I.
- 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: Faye Haxby Kesey Target entity description: Faye Haxby Kesey was the longtime wife and partner of American novelist Ken Kesey, known for her quiet but central role in the countercultural community that formed around him in Oregon.
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A.
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey was an American novelist and countercultural figure best known for his influential 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and his role in the 1960s psychedelic movement.
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B.
Ralph Keyes
Ralph Keyes is a former Irish rugby union fly-half best known for being the top points scorer at the 1991 Rugby World Cup.
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C.
Patrick "Lights" Leary
Patrick "Lights" Leary is the fictional former heavyweight boxing champion and family man at the center of the TV drama series "Lights Out."
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D.
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer best known for advocating the therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs during the 1960s counterculture movement.
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E.
Robert Keyes
Robert Keyes was an English Catholic conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Kesey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName |
Faye
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Haxby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | quiet but central role in Ken Kesey’s community ⓘ |
| lifestyle | counterculture-associated ⓘ |
| livedWith | Ken Kesey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married to Ken Kesey ⓘ |
| memberOf | Kesey family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the longtime wife of Ken Kesey
ⓘ
participation in the countercultural community around Ken Kesey ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Ken Kesey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Pleasant Hill, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
Faye Haxby Kesey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ken Kesey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Faye Haxby Kesey Description of subject: Faye Haxby Kesey was the longtime wife and partner of American novelist Ken Kesey, known for her quiet but central role in the countercultural community that formed around him in Oregon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.