Joanne Schieble
E52595
Joanne Schieble is an American woman best known as the biological mother of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joanne Schieble canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T93270 — 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: Joanne Schieble Context triple: [Steve Jobs, biologicalMother, Joanne Schieble]
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A.
Mary Jo Kopechne
Mary Jo Kopechne was a young political campaign worker and former aide to Senator Robert F. Kennedy whose death in 1969 at Chappaquiddick Island became the center of a major political scandal involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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B.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Julie Packard
Julie Packard is a marine biologist and conservationist best known as the founding executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and a prominent advocate for ocean conservation.
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D.
Colleen Bell
Colleen Bell is an American television producer and political appointee who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary.
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E.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
- 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: Joanne Schieble Target entity description: Joanne Schieble is an American woman best known as the biological mother of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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A.
Mary Jo Kopechne
Mary Jo Kopechne was a young political campaign worker and former aide to Senator Robert F. Kennedy whose death in 1969 at Chappaquiddick Island became the center of a major political scandal involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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B.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Julie Packard
Julie Packard is a marine biologist and conservationist best known as the founding executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and a prominent advocate for ocean conservation.
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D.
Colleen Bell
Colleen Bell is an American television producer and political appointee who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary.
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E.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| biologicalMother | Joanne Schieble self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| child |
Mona Simpson
ⓘ
Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educatedAt | University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
German Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
German American
|
| familyName | Schieble ⓘ |
| givenName | Joanne ⓘ |
| mother | Joanne Schieble self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
arranged adoption of Steve Jobs shortly after his birth
ⓘ
gave birth to Steve Jobs in 1955 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the biological mother of Steve Jobs
ⓘ
being the mother of novelist Mona Simpson ⓘ |
| occupation | speech therapist ⓘ |
| partner | Abdulfattah Jandali ⓘ |
| placeOfBirthOfChild | San Francisco ⓘ |
| relative |
Abdulfattah Jandali
ⓘ
Mona Simpson ⓘ Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| religion | Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Joanne Schieble Description of subject: Joanne Schieble is an American woman best known as the biological mother of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Steven Paul Jobs
subject surface form:
Steve Jobs
subject surface form:
Mona Simpson
subject surface form:
Steve Jobs
subject surface form:
Steve Jobs