Maureen Cox
E490635
Maureen Cox was a British hairdresser best known as the first wife of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maureen Cox canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2380566 — 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: Maureen Cox Context triple: [Ringo Starr, spouse, Maureen Cox]
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A.
Maureen Earl
Maureen Earl is best known as the wife of American novelist Clifford Irving, who gained notoriety for his fraudulent "autobiography" of Howard Hughes.
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B.
Maureen Swanson
Maureen Swanson was a British actress active in the 1950s, known for her roles in comedy and drama films before later becoming the Countess of Dudley.
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C.
Maureen Dean
Maureen Dean is an American writer and former political figure best known for her public presence during the Watergate scandal as the wife of White House Counsel John Dean.
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D.
Patricia Conolly
Patricia Conolly is an Australian-born stage actress known for her extensive work on Broadway and in major theatre productions internationally.
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E.
Eileen Shearer
Eileen Shearer is a political figure best known for founding the American Independent Party in the United States.
- 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: Maureen Cox Target entity description: Maureen Cox was a British hairdresser best known as the first wife of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
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A.
Maureen Earl
Maureen Earl is best known as the wife of American novelist Clifford Irving, who gained notoriety for his fraudulent "autobiography" of Howard Hughes.
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B.
Maureen Swanson
Maureen Swanson was a British actress active in the 1950s, known for her roles in comedy and drama films before later becoming the Countess of Dudley.
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C.
Maureen Dean
Maureen Dean is an American writer and former political figure best known for her public presence during the Watergate scandal as the wife of White House Counsel John Dean.
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D.
Patricia Conolly
Patricia Conolly is an Australian-born stage actress known for her extensive work on Broadway and in major theatre productions internationally.
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E.
Eileen Shearer
Eileen Shearer is a political figure best known for founding the American Independent Party in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
hairdresser ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ringo Starr
NERFINISHED
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The Beatles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Maureen Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White British ⓘ |
| fameCause | marriage to Ringo Starr ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasConnectionTo |
1960s British popular culture
ⓘ
Beatlemania era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouseRole | first wife of Ringo Starr ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | biographical articles about Ringo Starr’s family ⓘ |
| knownAs | Maureen Starkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced from Ringo Starr ⓘ |
| name | Maureen Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr ⓘ |
| notableOccupation | hairdresser ⓘ |
| occupation | hairdresser ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouse | Ringo Starr 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: Maureen Cox Description of subject: Maureen Cox was a British hairdresser best known as the first wife of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.