Roberta Seidman
E203177
Roberta Seidman was the wife of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roberta Seidman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T681484 — 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: Roberta Seidman Context triple: [John Garfield, spouse, Roberta Seidman]
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A.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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B.
Dorothy Auerbach
Dorothy Auerbach was the wife of legendary Boston Celtics coach and executive Red Auerbach.
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C.
Carole Rothman
Carole Rothman is an American theater producer and director best known as the co-founder and longtime artistic leader of New York’s Off-Broadway company Second Stage Theater.
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D.
Annette Lerner
Annette Lerner is a Washington, D.C.–area philanthropist and matriarch of the Lerner family, known for their real estate empire and former ownership of the Washington Nationals baseball team.
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E.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
- 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: Roberta Seidman Target entity description: Roberta Seidman was the wife of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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B.
Dorothy Auerbach
Dorothy Auerbach was the wife of legendary Boston Celtics coach and executive Red Auerbach.
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C.
Carole Rothman
Carole Rothman is an American theater producer and director best known as the co-founder and longtime artistic leader of New York’s Off-Broadway company Second Stage Theater.
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D.
Annette Lerner
Annette Lerner is a Washington, D.C.–area philanthropist and matriarch of the Lerner family, known for their real estate empire and former ownership of the Washington Nationals baseball team.
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E.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of American actor John Garfield ⓘ |
| spouse | John Garfield ⓘ |
| spouseCountryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouseNameAtBirth | Jacob Julius Garfinkle ⓘ |
| spouseNotablePeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
film actor
ⓘ
stage actor ⓘ |
| spouseStageName | John Garfield ⓘ |
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: Roberta Seidman Description of subject: Roberta Seidman was the wife of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.