Jean Hastert
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Jean Hastert is the wife of former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and has largely maintained a private life outside of her husband's political career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Hastert canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2725231 — 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: Jean Hastert Context triple: [Dennis Hastert, spouse, Jean Hastert]
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A.
Dennis Hastert
Dennis Hastert is an American Republican politician who served as the 51st Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007.
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B.
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner is a long-serving Republican former U.S. Representative from Wisconsin known for his influential role in shaping major legislation on surveillance, civil liberties, and the judiciary.
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C.
Dan Rostenkowski
Dan Rostenkowski was a powerful Democratic U.S. congressman from Chicago who chaired the House Ways and Means Committee and played a key role in national tax and trade legislation before his career ended amid a federal corruption scandal.
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D.
Michael G. Oxley
Michael G. Oxley was an American Republican congressman from Ohio best known for co-authoring the landmark Sarbanes–Oxley corporate governance and financial reporting reform law.
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E.
John Boehner
John Boehner is an American Republican politician who served as the 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
- 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: Jean Hastert Target entity description: Jean Hastert is the wife of former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and has largely maintained a private life outside of her husband's political career.
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A.
Dennis Hastert
Dennis Hastert is an American Republican politician who served as the 51st Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007.
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B.
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner is a long-serving Republican former U.S. Representative from Wisconsin known for his influential role in shaping major legislation on surveillance, civil liberties, and the judiciary.
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C.
Dan Rostenkowski
Dan Rostenkowski was a powerful Democratic U.S. congressman from Chicago who chaired the House Ways and Means Committee and played a key role in national tax and trade legislation before his career ended amid a federal corruption scandal.
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D.
Michael G. Oxley
Michael G. Oxley was an American Republican congressman from Ohio best known for co-authoring the landmark Sarbanes–Oxley corporate governance and financial reporting reform law.
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E.
John Boehner
John Boehner is an American Republican politician who served as the 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Dennis Hastert ⓘ |
| knownFor | supporting Dennis Hastert during his political career ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| mediaExposure | low ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| placeOfResidenceDuringHusbandSpeakership | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| politicalAffiliationThroughSpouse | Republican Party ⓘ |
| privacy | has largely maintained a private life outside of her husband's political career ⓘ |
| publicRole | largely non-political private figure ⓘ |
| religion | Evangelical Christian ⓘ |
| residence |
Illinois
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Yorkville, Illinois ⓘ |
| spouse | Dennis Hastert ⓘ |
| spousePositionHeld | Spouse of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| spousePositionHeldEndTime | 2007 ⓘ |
| spousePositionHeldStartTime | 1999 ⓘ |
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: Jean Hastert Description of subject: Jean Hastert is the wife of former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and has largely maintained a private life outside of her husband's political career.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.