Janette Hegner Wheeler
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Janette Hegner Wheeler was the wife of renowned American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler and a supportive partner throughout his academic and scientific career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Janette Hegner Wheeler canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1057860 — 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: Janette Hegner Wheeler Context triple: [John Archibald Wheeler, spouse, Janette Hegner Wheeler]
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A.
Rose Mary Harbison
Rose Mary Harbison is an American violinist and educator known for her performances, teaching, and long association with composer John Harbison.
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B.
Mary Elizabeth Horner
Mary Elizabeth Horner, later known as Mary Horner Lyell, was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell.
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C.
Elinor Junkin
Elinor Junkin was the first wife of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who died young shortly after their marriage in the 1850s.
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D.
Jeanne Campbell
Jeanne Campbell was a British socialite and journalist known for her connections to prominent literary and political figures, including her marriage to American novelist Norman Mailer.
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E.
Margaret Bremond Rice
Margaret Bremond Rice was the wife of American businessman and philanthropist William Marsh Rice, founder of Rice University.
- 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: Janette Hegner Wheeler Target entity description: Janette Hegner Wheeler was the wife of renowned American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler and a supportive partner throughout his academic and scientific career.
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A.
Rose Mary Harbison
Rose Mary Harbison is an American violinist and educator known for her performances, teaching, and long association with composer John Harbison.
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B.
Mary Elizabeth Horner
Mary Elizabeth Horner, later known as Mary Horner Lyell, was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell.
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C.
Elinor Junkin
Elinor Junkin was the first wife of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who died young shortly after their marriage in the 1850s.
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D.
Jeanne Campbell
Jeanne Campbell was a British socialite and journalist known for her connections to prominent literary and political figures, including her marriage to American novelist Norman Mailer.
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E.
Margaret Bremond Rice
Margaret Bremond Rice was the wife of American businessman and philanthropist William Marsh Rice, founder of Rice University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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spouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Princeton University
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University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Wheeler ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Janette ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Janette Hegner Wheeler self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of physicist John Archibald Wheeler
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supporting John Archibald Wheeler’s academic and scientific career ⓘ |
| partnerInLifeOf | John Archibald Wheeler ⓘ |
| residence |
Austin
ⓘ
surface form:
Austin, Texas
Princeton, New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Princeton, New Jersey
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| spouse | John Archibald Wheeler ⓘ |
| spouseName | John Archibald Wheeler ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | theoretical physicist ⓘ |
| supported |
John Archibald Wheeler’s academic career
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John Archibald Wheeler’s scientific work ⓘ |
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: Janette Hegner Wheeler Description of subject: Janette Hegner Wheeler was the wife of renowned American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler and a supportive partner throughout his academic and scientific career.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.