Lois Driggs Cannon
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Lois Driggs Cannon was an American businesswoman and philanthropist best known as the second wife of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lois Driggs Cannon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1236128 — 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: Lois Driggs Cannon Context triple: [Buzz Aldrin, spouse, Lois Driggs Cannon]
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A.
April H. Foley
April H. Foley is an American diplomat and public servant best known for serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary.
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B.
Dixie Lee
Dixie Lee was an American singer and actress of the early 20th century, best known for her work in film and music as well as her marriage to Bing Crosby.
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C.
Ann Fleischer
Ann Fleischer is best known as the first wife of former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Henry Kissinger.
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D.
Frances Witz Hull
Frances Witz Hull was the wife of longtime U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Cordell Hull.
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E.
Mary Eunice Harlan
Mary Eunice Harlan was the wife of Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s only surviving son, and a member of a prominent 19th-century American political family.
- 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: Lois Driggs Cannon Target entity description: Lois Driggs Cannon was an American businesswoman and philanthropist best known as the second wife of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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A.
April H. Foley
April H. Foley is an American diplomat and public servant best known for serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary.
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B.
Dixie Lee
Dixie Lee was an American singer and actress of the early 20th century, best known for her work in film and music as well as her marriage to Bing Crosby.
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C.
Ann Fleischer
Ann Fleischer is best known as the first wife of former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Henry Kissinger.
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D.
Frances Witz Hull
Frances Witz Hull was the wife of longtime U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Cordell Hull.
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E.
Mary Eunice Harlan
Mary Eunice Harlan was the wife of Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s only surviving son, and a member of a prominent 19th-century American political family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apollo 11 astronaut
ⓘ
businesswoman ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| endTimeOfMarriageWithBuzzAldrin | 2012 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Cannon
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Driggs ⓘ |
| givenName | Lois ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced from Buzz Aldrin ⓘ |
| memberOf | Driggs family ⓘ |
| notableFor | second wife of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin ⓘ |
| notableWork | philanthropic activities in the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
businesswoman
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ |
| residence |
Beverly Hills, California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Beverly Hills, California
Los Angeles, California, United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
business
ⓘ
philanthropy ⓘ |
| spouse |
Buzz Aldrin
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Lois Driggs Cannon self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| startTimeOfMarriageWithBuzzAldrin | 1988 ⓘ |
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: Lois Driggs Cannon Description of subject: Lois Driggs Cannon was an American businesswoman and philanthropist best known as the second wife of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Buzz Aldrin