Ruth Evelyn Martin
E252237
Ruth Evelyn Martin was the wife of renowned British actor Leslie Howard, known primarily for her long marriage to the stage and film star of the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruth Evelyn Martin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2249674 — 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: Ruth Evelyn Martin Context triple: [Leslie Howard, spouse, Ruth Evelyn Martin]
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A.
Ruth Beatrice Baker
Ruth Beatrice Baker is a British-born educator best known as the third wife of Barack Obama Sr. and stepmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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B.
Ruth Rose
Ruth Rose was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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C.
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Ruth Elizabeth Davis, better known as Bette Davis, was a legendary American film actress renowned for her intense performances and pioneering portrayals of complex, independent women in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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D.
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
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E.
Jane Martin Hamner
Jane Martin Hamner is best known as the wife of American television writer and producer Earl Hamner Jr., creator of the beloved series "The Waltons."
- 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: Ruth Evelyn Martin Target entity description: Ruth Evelyn Martin was the wife of renowned British actor Leslie Howard, known primarily for her long marriage to the stage and film star of the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Ruth Beatrice Baker
Ruth Beatrice Baker is a British-born educator best known as the third wife of Barack Obama Sr. and stepmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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B.
Ruth Rose
Ruth Rose was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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C.
Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Ruth Elizabeth Davis, better known as Bette Davis, was a legendary American film actress renowned for her intense performances and pioneering portrayals of complex, independent women in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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D.
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
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E.
Jane Martin Hamner
Jane Martin Hamner is best known as the wife of American television writer and producer Earl Hamner Jr., creator of the beloved series "The Waltons."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableFor | long marriage to actor Leslie Howard ⓘ |
| spouse | Leslie Howard ⓘ |
| spouseActivePeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
actor
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film star ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
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: Ruth Evelyn Martin Description of subject: Ruth Evelyn Martin was the wife of renowned British actor Leslie Howard, known primarily for her long marriage to the stage and film star of the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.