Jane Doughty
E1040070
Jane Doughty is a technology entrepreneur best known as one of the founders of the database software company Sybase.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jane Doughty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12562596 — 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: Jane Doughty Context triple: [Sybase, foundedBy, Jane Doughty]
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A.
Elizabeth Duncan
Elizabeth Duncan was an American dance teacher and choreographer who helped develop and promote the modern dance techniques pioneered by her more famous sister, Isadora Duncan.
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B.
Mary Pugh
Mary Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Pugh.
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C.
Mary Fawcett
Mary Fawcett was the mother of British academic and politician Henry Fawcett, a noted 19th-century economist and Postmaster General.
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D.
Elizabeth Dugdale
Elizabeth Dugdale was the wife of 17th-century English antiquary and collector Elias Ashmole, connected to the scholarly and antiquarian circles of Restoration England.
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E.
Elizabeth Holwell
Elizabeth Holwell was the wife of British colonial administrator and writer John Zephaniah Holwell, associated with the 18th-century British presence in India.
- 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: Jane Doughty Target entity description: Jane Doughty is a technology entrepreneur best known as one of the founders of the database software company Sybase.
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A.
Elizabeth Duncan
Elizabeth Duncan was an American dance teacher and choreographer who helped develop and promote the modern dance techniques pioneered by her more famous sister, Isadora Duncan.
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B.
Mary Pugh
Mary Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Pugh.
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C.
Mary Fawcett
Mary Fawcett was the mother of British academic and politician Henry Fawcett, a noted 19th-century economist and Postmaster General.
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D.
Elizabeth Dugdale
Elizabeth Dugdale was the wife of 17th-century English antiquary and collector Elias Ashmole, connected to the scholarly and antiquarian circles of Restoration England.
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E.
Elizabeth Holwell
Elizabeth Holwell was the wife of British colonial administrator and writer John Zephaniah Holwell, associated with the 18th-century British presence in India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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company founder ⓘ software company ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| coFounded | Sybase ⓘ |
| field |
database technology
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information technology ⓘ software industry ⓘ |
| industry | database software ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Sybase ⓘ |
| notableWork | Sybase ⓘ |
| occupation | technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| productType | relational database management system ⓘ |
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: Jane Doughty Description of subject: Jane Doughty is a technology entrepreneur best known as one of the founders of the database software company Sybase.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.