Sylvia (Salinger’s first wife)
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Sylvia (Salinger’s first wife) was the brief first spouse of American author J.D. Salinger, whom he married in Europe shortly after World War II before their marriage quickly ended.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sylvia (Salinger’s first wife) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12875491 — 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: Sylvia (Salinger’s first wife) Context triple: [Sylvia Welter, saidToBeTheSameAs, Sylvia (Salinger’s first wife)]
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A.
Diane Salinger
Diane Salinger is an American actress known for her character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like the HBO series "Carnivàle" and the movie "Pee-wee's Big Adventure."
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B.
Margaret Salinger
Margaret Salinger is an American author and memoirist best known for her book "Dream Catcher," which recounts her life as the daughter of reclusive writer J. D. Salinger.
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C.
Claudia Salinger
Claudia Salinger is a musically gifted, emotionally sensitive younger sister character from the 1990s television drama "Party of Five."
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D.
Marie Jillich Salinger
Marie Jillich Salinger was the mother of American writer J. D. Salinger and a formative influence in his early life.
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E.
Conrad Salinger
Conrad Salinger was an American arranger and orchestrator renowned for his lush, sophisticated scores for Hollywood musicals during the mid-20th century.
- 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: Sylvia (Salinger’s first wife) Target entity description: Sylvia (Salinger’s first wife) was the brief first spouse of American author J.D. Salinger, whom he married in Europe shortly after World War II before their marriage quickly ended.
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A.
Diane Salinger
Diane Salinger is an American actress known for her character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like the HBO series "Carnivàle" and the movie "Pee-wee's Big Adventure."
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B.
Margaret Salinger
Margaret Salinger is an American author and memoirist best known for her book "Dream Catcher," which recounts her life as the daughter of reclusive writer J. D. Salinger.
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C.
Claudia Salinger
Claudia Salinger is a musically gifted, emotionally sensitive younger sister character from the 1990s television drama "Party of Five."
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D.
Marie Jillich Salinger
Marie Jillich Salinger was the mother of American writer J. D. Salinger and a formative influence in his early life.
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E.
Conrad Salinger
Conrad Salinger was an American arranger and orchestrator renowned for his lush, sophisticated scores for Hollywood musicals during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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spouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith | post–World War II Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfMarriage | France ⓘ |
| marriageDuration | brief ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1947 ⓘ |
| marriageLocation | Europe ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1945 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of J. D. Salinger ⓘ |
| spouseCitizenship | United States of America (through J. D. Salinger) ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | spouse of an American author ⓘ |
| spouseOf | J. D. Salinger ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of J. D. Salinger ⓘ |
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: Sylvia (Salinger’s first wife) Description of subject: Sylvia (Salinger’s first wife) was the brief first spouse of American author J.D. Salinger, whom he married in Europe shortly after World War II before their marriage quickly ended.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.