Katherine Mary Dewar
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Katherine Mary Dewar was the wife of pioneering Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and a supportive partner in his personal and scientific life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Katherine Mary Dewar canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T130786 — 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: Katherine Mary Dewar Context triple: [James Clerk Maxwell, spouse, Katherine Mary Dewar]
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A.
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress known for her folk-inspired pop music and roles in musical theatre, including the hit musical "Blood Brothers."
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B.
Maria Skerrett
Maria Skerrett was the second wife of British statesman Sir Robert Walpole, serving as his companion during his later years as de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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C.
Patricia Spence
Patricia Spence was the second wife of British philosopher and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell.
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D.
Katherine Hudson
Katherine Hudson was the wife of English explorer Henry Hudson, known primarily through historical records of his voyages and family.
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E.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
- 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: Katherine Mary Dewar Target entity description: Katherine Mary Dewar was the wife of pioneering Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and a supportive partner in his personal and scientific life.
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A.
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress known for her folk-inspired pop music and roles in musical theatre, including the hit musical "Blood Brothers."
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B.
Maria Skerrett
Maria Skerrett was the second wife of British statesman Sir Robert Walpole, serving as his companion during his later years as de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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C.
Patricia Spence
Patricia Spence was the second wife of British philosopher and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell.
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D.
Katherine Hudson
Katherine Hudson was the wife of English explorer Henry Hudson, known primarily through historical records of his voyages and family.
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E.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Dewar ⓘ |
| givenName |
Kathryn
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surface form:
Katherine
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| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| middleName | Mary ⓘ |
| name | Katherine Mary Dewar self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of James Clerk Maxwell
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supporting the personal life of James Clerk Maxwell ⓘ supporting the scientific work of James Clerk Maxwell ⓘ |
| residence | Scotland ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | James Clerk Maxwell ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | physicist ⓘ |
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: Katherine Mary Dewar Description of subject: Katherine Mary Dewar was the wife of pioneering Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and a supportive partner in his personal and scientific life.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.