Johanna Herting Roebling
E46186
Johanna Herting Roebling was the mother of civil engineer Washington Roebling, who led the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johanna Herting Roebling canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T355861 — 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: Johanna Herting Roebling Context triple: [Washington Roebling, mother, Johanna Herting Roebling]
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A.
Emily Warren Roebling
Emily Warren Roebling was an American engineer and project manager who played a crucial role in overseeing the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband, the chief engineer, became incapacitated.
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B.
Ferdinand Roebling
Ferdinand Roebling was a member of the prominent Roebling family associated with major 19th-century American engineering and industrial enterprises.
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C.
Washington Roebling
Washington Roebling was an American civil engineer best known for overseeing the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, pioneering the use of steel-wire suspension and modern engineering techniques.
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D.
Sara Ann Delano
Sara Ann Delano was an American socialite and the mother of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Charles Roebling
Charles Roebling was an American civil engineer and industrialist best known for helping complete the Brooklyn Bridge and leading the John A. Roebling's Sons wire rope company.
- 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: Johanna Herting Roebling Target entity description: Johanna Herting Roebling was the mother of civil engineer Washington Roebling, who led the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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A.
Emily Warren Roebling
Emily Warren Roebling was an American engineer and project manager who played a crucial role in overseeing the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband, the chief engineer, became incapacitated.
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B.
Ferdinand Roebling
Ferdinand Roebling was a member of the prominent Roebling family associated with major 19th-century American engineering and industrial enterprises.
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C.
Washington Roebling
Washington Roebling was an American civil engineer best known for overseeing the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, pioneering the use of steel-wire suspension and modern engineering techniques.
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D.
Sara Ann Delano
Sara Ann Delano was an American socialite and the mother of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Charles Roebling
Charles Roebling was an American civil engineer and industrialist best known for helping complete the Brooklyn Bridge and leading the John A. Roebling's Sons wire rope company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| childOf | Johanna Herting Roebling self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Roebling ⓘ |
| givenName |
Herting
ⓘ
Johanna ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Caroline Roebling
ⓘ
Charles Roebling ⓘ Edmund Roebling ⓘ Ferdinand Roebling ⓘ Helen Roebling ⓘ Henry Roebling ⓘ Josephine Roebling ⓘ Julian Roebling ⓘ Karl Roebling ⓘ Washington Roebling ⓘ William Roebling ⓘ |
| hasMother | Johanna Herting Roebling self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| motherOf | Washington Roebling ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
John A. Roebling
ⓘ
Washington Roebling ⓘ |
| notableWork | Brooklyn Bridge ⓘ |
| occupation | civil engineer ⓘ |
| spouse |
Johanna Herting Roebling
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
John A. Roebling ⓘ |
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: Johanna Herting Roebling Description of subject: Johanna Herting Roebling was the mother of civil engineer Washington Roebling, who led the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Washington Roebling
subject surface form:
Washington Roebling
subject surface form:
John A. Roebling