Ruth Sherman Tolman
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Ruth Sherman Tolman was an American psychologist and intelligence officer known for her clinical work, advocacy for women in science, and service with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ruth Sherman Tolman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1263716 — 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: Ruth Sherman Tolman Context triple: [Richard C. Tolman, spouse, Ruth Sherman Tolman]
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A.
Lucile Salter Packard
Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
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B.
Lillian C. McDermott
Lillian C. McDermott was a pioneering physics education researcher and professor known for transforming the teaching and learning of physics through research-based instructional methods.
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C.
Lillie Hitchcock Coit
Lillie Hitchcock Coit was a wealthy San Francisco socialite and eccentric philanthropist best known for her passionate support of the city’s firefighters and for funding the construction of Coit Tower.
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D.
Frances Spatz Leighton
Frances Spatz Leighton was an American writer best known for co-authoring memoirs and behind-the-scenes accounts of political and social life, including the book that inspired the television miniseries "Backstairs at the White House."
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E.
Frances Loeb
Frances Loeb was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist best known as the former wife of television producer Norman Lear and as the founder of the feminist magazine Ms. Magazine.
- 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: Ruth Sherman Tolman Target entity description: Ruth Sherman Tolman was an American psychologist and intelligence officer known for her clinical work, advocacy for women in science, and service with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.
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A.
Lucile Salter Packard
Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
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B.
Lillian C. McDermott
Lillian C. McDermott was a pioneering physics education researcher and professor known for transforming the teaching and learning of physics through research-based instructional methods.
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C.
Lillie Hitchcock Coit
Lillie Hitchcock Coit was a wealthy San Francisco socialite and eccentric philanthropist best known for her passionate support of the city’s firefighters and for funding the construction of Coit Tower.
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D.
Frances Spatz Leighton
Frances Spatz Leighton was an American writer best known for co-authoring memoirs and behind-the-scenes accounts of political and social life, including the book that inspired the television miniseries "Backstairs at the White House."
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E.
Frances Loeb
Frances Loeb was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist best known as the former wife of television producer Norman Lear and as the founder of the feminist magazine Ms. Magazine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American psychologist
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human ⓘ intelligence officer ⓘ psychologist ⓘ |
| areaOfActivism |
gender equality in science
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support for women scientists ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Office of Strategic Services ⓘ |
| familyName | Tolman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
clinical psychology
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psychology ⓘ |
| givenName | Ruth ⓘ |
| hasRole |
clinical psychologist
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intelligence officer ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| movement | women in science advocacy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for women in science
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clinical work in psychology ⓘ service in the Office of Strategic Services ⓘ |
| notableWork | clinical psychological services during World War II ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence officer
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psychologist ⓘ |
| participantIn | World War II ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Ruth Sherman Tolman Description of subject: Ruth Sherman Tolman was an American psychologist and intelligence officer known for her clinical work, advocacy for women in science, and service with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.