Janet Shearon
E162145
Janet Shearon was the first wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, with whom she shared much of his early aviation and NASA career before their divorce.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Janet Shearon canonical | 5 |
| Janet Shearon Armstrong | 3 |
| Janet Elizabeth Shearon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T310239 — 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: Janet Shearon Context triple: [Neil A. Armstrong, spouse, Janet Shearon]
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A.
Janice Gordon
Janice Gordon is known as the first wife of American country music singer Kenny Rogers, whom he married before rising to fame.
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B.
Janet Jones
Janet Jones is an American actress and former model best known for her film and television roles in the 1980s and 1990s and for being married to hockey legend Wayne Gretzky.
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C.
Sharon Black
Sharon Black is a notable individual whose achievements or public presence have made the surname Black recognizable in her context.
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D.
Sharon Curry
Sharon Curry is the wife of Michael Bruce Curry, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
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E.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
- 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: Janet Shearon Target entity description: Janet Shearon was the first wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, with whom she shared much of his early aviation and NASA career before their divorce.
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A.
Janice Gordon
Janice Gordon is known as the first wife of American country music singer Kenny Rogers, whom he married before rising to fame.
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B.
Janet Jones
Janet Jones is an American actress and former model best known for her film and television roles in the 1980s and 1990s and for being married to hockey legend Wayne Gretzky.
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C.
Sharon Black
Sharon Black is a notable individual whose achievements or public presence have made the surname Black recognizable in her context.
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D.
Sharon Curry
Sharon Curry is the wife of Michael Bruce Curry, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
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E.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
biographies of Neil Armstrong
ⓘ
historical accounts of the Apollo program ⓘ |
| familyName | Shearon ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity | astronaut family life ⓘ |
| givenName |
Janet
ⓘ
Janet ⓘ
surface form:
Janet Elizabeth
|
| hasChild |
Eric Armstrong
ⓘ
Karen Armstrong ⓘ Mark Armstrong ⓘ |
| name |
Janet Shearon
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Janet Elizabeth Shearon
Janet Shearon self-link ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
divorce from Neil Armstrong in 1994
ⓘ
living in Houston during the Apollo program ⓘ marriage to Neil Armstrong in 1956 ⓘ supporting Neil Armstrong during his NASA career ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| relative |
Neil A. Armstrong
ⓘ
surface form:
Neil Armstrong
|
| residence |
Houston, Texas, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Houston, Texas
Ohio ⓘ |
| spouse |
Janet Shearon
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Neil A. Armstrong ⓘ
surface form:
Neil Armstrong
|
| spouseEndTime | 1994 ⓘ |
| spouseStartTime | 1956 ⓘ |
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: Janet Shearon Description of subject: Janet Shearon was the first wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, with whom she shared much of his early aviation and NASA career before their divorce.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Neil Armstrong
this entity surface form:
Janet Shearon Armstrong
this entity surface form:
Janet Shearon Armstrong
this entity surface form:
Janet Shearon Armstrong
this entity surface form:
Janet Elizabeth Shearon
subject surface form:
Neil Armstrong