Dora Johnston
E947716
Dora Johnston was the wife of British Arabist, explorer, and intelligence officer St. John Philby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dora Johnston canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10156939 — 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: Dora Johnston Context triple: [St. John Philby, spouse, Dora Johnston]
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A.
Dora Wheeler
Dora Wheeler was an American painter and illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her portraits and decorative work.
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B.
Dora Ladd Baker
Dora Ladd Baker was the mother of U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker Jr., a prominent figure in mid-20th-century American politics.
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C.
Dorothy McIlwraith
Dorothy McIlwraith was an American magazine editor best known for her influential mid-20th-century stewardship of the pulp fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales.
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D.
Dorothy Macmillan
Dorothy Macmillan was the mother of British publisher and Conservative politician Maurice Crawford Macmillan and a member of the prominent Macmillan family.
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E.
Dora Strang
Dora Strang is a character in Peter Shaffer's play "Equus," portrayed as the deeply religious mother of the troubled teenager Alan Strang.
- 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: Dora Johnston Target entity description: Dora Johnston was the wife of British Arabist, explorer, and intelligence officer St. John Philby.
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A.
Dora Wheeler
Dora Wheeler was an American painter and illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her portraits and decorative work.
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B.
Dora Ladd Baker
Dora Ladd Baker was the mother of U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker Jr., a prominent figure in mid-20th-century American politics.
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C.
Dorothy McIlwraith
Dorothy McIlwraith was an American magazine editor best known for her influential mid-20th-century stewardship of the pulp fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales.
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D.
Dorothy Macmillan
Dorothy Macmillan was the mother of British publisher and Conservative politician Maurice Crawford Macmillan and a member of the prominent Macmillan family.
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E.
Dora Strang
Dora Strang is a character in Peter Shaffer's play "Equus," portrayed as the deeply religious mother of the troubled teenager Alan Strang.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| name | Dora Johnston ⓘ |
| notableRelative | St. John Philby ⓘ |
| occupation |
Arabist
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explorer ⓘ intelligence officer ⓘ |
| spouse |
Dora Johnston
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St. John Philby ⓘ |
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: Dora Johnston Description of subject: Dora Johnston was the wife of British Arabist, explorer, and intelligence officer St. John Philby.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.