James Francis Goble
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James Francis Goble was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and a chemistry teacher who died relatively young from a brain tumor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Francis Goble canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10038246 — 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: James Francis Goble Context triple: [Katherine Johnson, spouse, James Francis Goble]
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A.
William Guy
William Guy was a prominent 19th-century British statistician and physician regarded as a pioneer in medical statistics and public health.
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B.
Louis Hobson
Louis Hobson is an American musical theatre actor best known for his work on Broadway, including originating a role in the acclaimed rock musical "Next to Normal."
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C.
John Fagan
John Fagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
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D.
Harold F. Gosnell
Harold F. Gosnell was an influential American political scientist known for pioneering empirical and methodological approaches to the study of elections and political behavior.
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E.
Frank W. Gibb
Frank W. Gibb was an American architect known for designing prominent public buildings in Arkansas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: James Francis Goble Target entity description: James Francis Goble was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and a chemistry teacher who died relatively young from a brain tumor.
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A.
William Guy
William Guy was a prominent 19th-century British statistician and physician regarded as a pioneer in medical statistics and public health.
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B.
Louis Hobson
Louis Hobson is an American musical theatre actor best known for his work on Broadway, including originating a role in the acclaimed rock musical "Next to Normal."
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C.
John Fagan
John Fagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
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D.
Harold F. Gosnell
Harold F. Gosnell was an influential American political scientist known for pioneering empirical and methodological approaches to the study of elections and political behavior.
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E.
Frank W. Gibb
Frank W. Gibb was an American architect known for designing prominent public buildings in Arkansas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | brain tumor ⓘ |
| child |
Constance Goble
ⓘ
Joylette Goble ⓘ Katherine Goble ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
United States public school system
ⓘ
linked to:
United States education system
|
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Goble ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | James Francis Goble ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Katherine Johnson ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation | chemistry teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Newport News, Virginia
ⓘ
West Virginia ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| spouse | Katherine Johnson ⓘ |
| spouseAlias |
Katherine Goble
ⓘ
Katherine Johnson ⓘ |
| spouseBirthName | Creola Katherine Coleman ⓘ |
| spouseEmployer | NASA ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | mathematician ⓘ |
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: James Francis Goble Description of subject: James Francis Goble was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and a chemistry teacher who died relatively young from a brain tumor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.