Webb
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Webb is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, politics, and science.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Webb canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10573602 — 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: Webb Context triple: [Jack Webb, familyName, Webb]
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A.
Webb
Webb is the given name of American actor, dancer, and singer Clifton Webb, known for his sophisticated film roles in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Webb
Webb is a character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Coming Through Slaughter," involved in the fragmented, jazz-infused narrative surrounding the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden.
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C.
James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is a large, space-based observatory designed to study the universe in infrared light, revealing the formation of the first galaxies, stars, and planetary systems with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution.
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D.
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a next-generation NASA observatory designed to study dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics with a wide-field view of the universe.
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E.
Kepler space telescope
The Kepler space telescope was a NASA space observatory designed to discover Earth-size exoplanets by continuously monitoring the brightness of over 150,000 stars.
- 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: Webb Target entity description: Webb is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, politics, and science.
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A.
Webb
Webb is the given name of American actor, dancer, and singer Clifton Webb, known for his sophisticated film roles in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Webb
Webb is a character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Coming Through Slaughter," involved in the fragmented, jazz-infused narrative surrounding the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden.
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C.
James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is a large, space-based observatory designed to study the universe in infrared light, revealing the formation of the first galaxies, stars, and planetary systems with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution.
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D.
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a next-generation NASA observatory designed to study dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics with a wide-field view of the universe.
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E.
Kepler space telescope
The Kepler space telescope was a NASA space observatory designed to discover Earth-size exoplanets by continuously monitoring the brightness of over 150,000 stars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (78)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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space telescope ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Australia
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United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Middle English webbe
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Old English webba ⓘ |
| familyName |
Webb
NERFINISHED
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Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | weaver ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Beatrice Webb
NERFINISHED
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Clifton Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Derek Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ James E. Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ James Webb Space Telescope NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Karrie Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Ken Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Martina McBride (born Martina Schiff, married name Webb) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Barker Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Prescott Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| namedAfter | James E. Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameGivenTo | James Webb Space Telescope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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author ⓘ botanist ⓘ economist ⓘ film score composer ⓘ football manager ⓘ government official ⓘ historian ⓘ investigative journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ politician ⓘ politician ⓘ professional golfer ⓘ singer ⓘ singer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ social reformer ⓘ sociologist ⓘ |
| operator |
CSA
NERFINISHED
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ESA NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Administrator of NASA
NERFINISHED
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United States Senator from Virginia ⓘ |
| spouse | Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield 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: Webb Description of subject: Webb is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, politics, and science.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.