Judy Howard
E115786
Judy Howard was the wife of American actor Rance Howard and the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Judy Howard canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T952226 — 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: Judy Howard Context triple: [Rance Howard, spouse, Judy Howard]
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A.
Jennifer Butler
Jennifer Butler was an American costume designer best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to actor Bill Murray.
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B.
Pamela Archer
Pamela Archer was the second wife of famed American World War II hero and actor Audie Murphy, with whom she had two sons and remained married until his death.
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C.
Sheena Easton
Sheena Easton is a Scottish pop singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1980s with hits like "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" and "For Your Eyes Only."
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D.
Jody Allen
Jody Allen is an American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founder of Vulcan Inc. and sister of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
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E.
Stevie Crawford
Stevie Crawford is a Scottish former professional footballer and coach best known as a prolific forward in the Scottish leagues and later as a manager.
- 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: Judy Howard Target entity description: Judy Howard was the wife of American actor Rance Howard and the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard.
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A.
Jennifer Butler
Jennifer Butler was an American costume designer best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to actor Bill Murray.
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B.
Pamela Archer
Pamela Archer was the second wife of famed American World War II hero and actor Audie Murphy, with whom she had two sons and remained married until his death.
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C.
Sheena Easton
Sheena Easton is a Scottish pop singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1980s with hits like "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" and "For Your Eyes Only."
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D.
Jody Allen
Jody Allen is an American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founder of Vulcan Inc. and sister of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
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E.
Stevie Crawford
Stevie Crawford is a Scottish former professional footballer and coach best known as a prolific forward in the Scottish leagues and later as a manager.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child |
Clint Howard
ⓘ
Ron Howard ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| father |
Rance Howard
ⓘ
Rance Howard ⓘ |
| mother |
Judy Howard
ⓘ
Judy Howard ⓘ |
| name | Judy Howard ⓘ |
| notableRole |
mother of Clint Howard
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mother of Ron Howard ⓘ wife of Rance Howard ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Beautiful Mind
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linked to:
A Beautiful Mind (2001 film)
Apollo 13 ⓘ The Da Vinci Code ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
actor ⓘ actor ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| spouse |
Judy Howard
ⓘ
Rance Howard ⓘ |
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: Judy Howard Description of subject: Judy Howard was the wife of American actor Rance Howard and the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.