Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
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Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz is a microbiologist with a high-pitched voice and surprisingly fierce personality, known as Howard Wolowitz’s wife on the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz canonical | 7 |
| Bernadette Maryann Rostenkowski-Wolowitz | 1 |
| Mrs. Rostenkowski | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1737442 — 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: Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz Context triple: [The Big Bang Theory, mainCharacter, Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz]
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A.
Mildred Spiewak
Mildred Spiewak was the birth name of Mildred Dresselhaus, a pioneering American physicist renowned for her groundbreaking work in carbon science and nanotechnology.
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B.
Ruby Schiff
Ruby Schiff is the daughter of American actor Richard Schiff, known for his role on the television series "The West Wing."
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C.
Shoshanna Shapiro
Shoshanna Shapiro is a bubbly, fast-talking, and naive yet increasingly self-assured young woman featured as one of the core friends navigating adulthood in the TV series "Girls."
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D.
Sydney Shapiro
Sydney Shapiro is an American actress and former model best known as the wife of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
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E.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
- 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: Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz Target entity description: Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz is a microbiologist with a high-pitched voice and surprisingly fierce personality, known as Howard Wolowitz’s wife on the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
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A.
Mildred Spiewak
Mildred Spiewak was the birth name of Mildred Dresselhaus, a pioneering American physicist renowned for her groundbreaking work in carbon science and nanotechnology.
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B.
Ruby Schiff
Ruby Schiff is the daughter of American actor Richard Schiff, known for his role on the television series "The West Wing."
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C.
Shoshanna Shapiro
Shoshanna Shapiro is a bubbly, fast-talking, and naive yet increasingly self-assured young woman featured as one of the core friends navigating adulthood in the TV series "Girls."
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D.
Sydney Shapiro
Sydney Shapiro is an American actress and former model best known as the wife of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
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E.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz Description of subject: Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz is a microbiologist with a high-pitched voice and surprisingly fierce personality, known as Howard Wolowitz’s wife on the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
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fullName
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Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Bernadette Maryann Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
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mother
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Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Mrs. Rostenkowski