Joan Haverty
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Joan Haverty was an American woman best known as the second wife of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac and the mother of his only acknowledged child, Jan Kerouac.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joan Haverty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2902340 — 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: Joan Haverty Context triple: [Jack Kerouac, spouse, Joan Haverty]
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A.
Joan Murray
Joan Murray was the wife of famed British World War II flying ace and double amputee Sir Douglas Bader.
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B.
Joan Foster
Joan Foster is the complex, identity-shifting protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "Lady Oracle," known for her secret life as a gothic romance writer and her struggle to escape her past.
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C.
Joan Barclay
Joan Barclay was an American film actress known for her numerous roles in low-budget Westerns and B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Joanne Horton
Joanne Horton was the wife of H. R. Haldeman, a prominent aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
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E.
Joan Rice
Joan Rice was a British film actress of the 1950s best known for her roles in adventure and comedy films produced by studios such as the Rank Organisation.
- 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: Joan Haverty Target entity description: Joan Haverty was an American woman best known as the second wife of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac and the mother of his only acknowledged child, Jan Kerouac.
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A.
Joan Murray
Joan Murray was the wife of famed British World War II flying ace and double amputee Sir Douglas Bader.
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B.
Joan Foster
Joan Foster is the complex, identity-shifting protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "Lady Oracle," known for her secret life as a gothic romance writer and her struggle to escape her past.
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C.
Joan Barclay
Joan Barclay was an American film actress known for her numerous roles in low-budget Westerns and B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Joanne Horton
Joanne Horton was the wife of H. R. Haldeman, a prominent aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
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E.
Joan Rice
Joan Rice was a British film actress of the 1950s best known for her roles in adventure and comedy films produced by studios such as the Rank Organisation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
ⓘ
human ⓘ memoir ⓘ |
| author | Joan Haverty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Jan Kerouac ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Nobody’s Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of the Beats
ⓘ
biographies of Jack Kerouac ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| father | Jack Kerouac ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Joan Haverty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Beat Generation ⓘ |
| name | Joan Haverty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of Jan Kerouac
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being the second wife of Jack Kerouac ⓘ |
| notableWork | Nobody’s Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of the Beats ⓘ |
| occupation |
model
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secretary ⓘ |
| relative |
Jack Kerouac
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Jan Kerouac ⓘ |
| residence |
Albany
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surface form:
Albany, New York
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
New York City ⓘ North Carolina ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jack Kerouac
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Joan Haverty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Joan Haverty Description of subject: Joan Haverty was an American woman best known as the second wife of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac and the mother of his only acknowledged child, Jan Kerouac.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.