Hawking family
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The Hawking family is the immediate and extended family of renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, encompassing his spouses, children, and close relatives.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hawking family canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7052998 — 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: Hawking family Context triple: [Elaine Mason, partOf, Hawking family]
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A.
Frank Hawking
Frank Hawking was the paternal grandfather of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and part of the Hawking family’s earlier English lineage.
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B.
Timothy Hawking
Timothy Hawking is a British man best known as one of the sons of renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
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C.
Lucy Hawking
Lucy Hawking is a British journalist and author best known for her children's science books co-written with her father, physicist Stephen Hawking, which aim to make complex scientific ideas accessible to young readers.
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D.
Jane Wilde Hawking
Jane Wilde Hawking is an English author and educator best known for her memoir about her marriage to physicist Stephen Hawking, which inspired the film "The Theory of Everything."
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E.
Robert Hawking
Robert Hawking is the eldest son of renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, known for maintaining a largely private life outside the public spotlight surrounding his father.
- 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: Hawking family Target entity description: The Hawking family is the immediate and extended family of renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, encompassing his spouses, children, and close relatives.
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A.
Frank Hawking
Frank Hawking was the paternal grandfather of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and part of the Hawking family’s earlier English lineage.
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B.
Timothy Hawking
Timothy Hawking is a British man best known as one of the sons of renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
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C.
Lucy Hawking
Lucy Hawking is a British journalist and author best known for her children's science books co-written with her father, physicist Stephen Hawking, which aim to make complex scientific ideas accessible to young readers.
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D.
Jane Wilde Hawking
Jane Wilde Hawking is an English author and educator best known for her memoir about her marriage to physicist Stephen Hawking, which inspired the film "The Theory of Everything."
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E.
Robert Hawking
Robert Hawking is the eldest son of renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, known for maintaining a largely private life outside the public spotlight surrounding his father.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | family ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Cambridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfNotability |
literature
ⓘ
science communication ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Frank Hawking
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Isobel Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBiographicalFilmAboutMember | The Theory of Everything NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBiographicalWorkAboutMember | Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Lucy Hawking
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Timothy Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Elaine Mason
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Isobel Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucy Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Timothy Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMemberProfession |
author
ⓘ
computer engineer ⓘ educator ⓘ science writer ⓘ theoretical physicist ⓘ |
| hasParentChildRelationship |
Frank Hawking – Stephen Hawking
ⓘ
Isobel Hawking – Stephen Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Hawking – Lucy Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Hawking – Robert Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Hawking – Timothy Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouseRelationship |
Stephen Hawking – Elaine Mason
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stephen Hawking – Jane Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Elaine Mason
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Isobel Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucy Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ Timothy Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicRecognition | known primarily due to Stephen Hawking’s scientific fame ⓘ |
| religionOrBeliefDiversity | includes agnostic members ⓘ |
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: Hawking family Description of subject: The Hawking family is the immediate and extended family of renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, encompassing his spouses, children, and close relatives.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.