Joan Houseman
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Joan Houseman was the wife of Romanian-born American actor and producer John Houseman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joan Houseman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1572091 — 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: Joan Houseman Context triple: [John Houseman, spouse, Joan Houseman]
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A.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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B.
Frances Loeb
Frances Loeb was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist best known as the former wife of television producer Norman Lear and as the founder of the feminist magazine Ms. Magazine.
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C.
Blanche Knopf
Blanche Knopf was an influential American publisher and co-founder of the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, known for championing modernist and international literature.
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D.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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E.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
- 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: Joan Houseman Target entity description: Joan Houseman was the wife of Romanian-born American actor and producer John Houseman.
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A.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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B.
Frances Loeb
Frances Loeb was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist best known as the former wife of television producer Norman Lear and as the founder of the feminist magazine Ms. Magazine.
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C.
Blanche Knopf
Blanche Knopf was an influential American publisher and co-founder of the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, known for championing modernist and international literature.
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D.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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E.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Romania ⓘ |
| spouse |
Joan Houseman
self-linksurface differs
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John Houseman ⓘ |
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: Joan Houseman Description of subject: Joan Houseman was the wife of Romanian-born American actor and producer John Houseman.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Houseman
subject surface form:
John Houseman