Elizabeth Shaw
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Elizabeth Shaw is a scientist and the central protagonist in the science fiction film "Prometheus," known for her quest to uncover humanity’s origins.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Shaw canonical | 7 |
| Dr. Elizabeth Shaw | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1749128 — 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: Elizabeth Shaw Context triple: [Prometheus, character, Elizabeth Shaw]
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A.
Elizabeth Darwin
Elizabeth Darwin is a member of the Darwin family, likely a descendant or relative of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
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B.
Elizabeth Shaw Melville
Elizabeth Shaw Melville was the wife of American novelist Herman Melville and the daughter of Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, known for her extensive correspondence and role in preserving Melville’s literary legacy.
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C.
Peggy Craven
Peggy Craven was an American stage and television actress and director, known for her work in mid-20th-century theater and for her long marriage to actor-producer Norman Lloyd.
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D.
Lara Lettice Johnson-Wheeler
Lara Lettice Johnson-Wheeler is a British writer and arts and fashion journalist, known as the eldest daughter of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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E.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
- 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: Elizabeth Shaw Target entity description: Elizabeth Shaw is a scientist and the central protagonist in the science fiction film "Prometheus," known for her quest to uncover humanity’s origins.
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A.
Elizabeth Darwin
Elizabeth Darwin is a member of the Darwin family, likely a descendant or relative of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
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B.
Elizabeth Shaw Melville
Elizabeth Shaw Melville was the wife of American novelist Herman Melville and the daughter of Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, known for her extensive correspondence and role in preserving Melville’s literary legacy.
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C.
Peggy Craven
Peggy Craven was an American stage and television actress and director, known for her work in mid-20th-century theater and for her long marriage to actor-producer Norman Lloyd.
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D.
Lara Lettice Johnson-Wheeler
Lara Lettice Johnson-Wheeler is a British writer and arts and fashion journalist, known as the eldest daughter of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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E.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| affiliation | Weyland Corporation ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Prometheus ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
David 8
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Meredith Vickers ⓘ Peter Weyland ⓘ USCSS Prometheus ⓘ |
| createdBy | Ridley Scott ⓘ |
| createdForWork | Prometheus ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | survivor of the Prometheus mission ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Prometheus ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasCompanion | android David 8 ⓘ |
| homeWorld | Earth ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of the Engineers
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quest to uncover humanity’s origins ⓘ |
| occupation |
archaeologist
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scientist ⓘ |
| partner | Charlie Holloway ⓘ |
| partOf | Prometheus (film) character list ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Noomi Rapace ⓘ |
| positionInNarrative |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| storyRole | explorer of LV-223 ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
faith versus science
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search for humanity’s creators ⓘ |
| universe | Alien franchise ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | science fiction film ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth Shaw Description of subject: Elizabeth Shaw is a scientist and the central protagonist in the science fiction film "Prometheus," known for her quest to uncover humanity’s origins.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dr. Elizabeth Shaw
subject surface form:
David (Alien franchise)