Jane Shirley Smith
E158999
Jane Shirley Smith is known primarily as the first wife of American media mogul Ted Turner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jane Shirley Smith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1375211 — 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 Shirley Smith Context triple: [Ted Turner, spouse, Jane Shirley Smith]
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A.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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B.
Mae Marsh
Mae Marsh was an American silent film actress best known for her emotionally powerful performances in early cinema, particularly in D.W. Griffith’s landmark films.
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C.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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D.
Eliza Allen
Eliza Allen was a 19th-century American woman best known as the brief and controversial first wife of Texas statesman and military leader Sam Houston.
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E.
Marianne Wiggins
Marianne Wiggins is an American novelist and short story writer known for her inventive, genre-blending fiction and for receiving honors such as the Whiting Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
- 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 Shirley Smith Target entity description: Jane Shirley Smith is known primarily as the first wife of American media mogul Ted Turner.
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A.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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B.
Mae Marsh
Mae Marsh was an American silent film actress best known for her emotionally powerful performances in early cinema, particularly in D.W. Griffith’s landmark films.
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C.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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D.
Eliza Allen
Eliza Allen was a 19th-century American woman best known as the brief and controversial first wife of Texas statesman and military leader Sam Houston.
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E.
Marianne Wiggins
Marianne Wiggins is an American novelist and short story writer known for her inventive, genre-blending fiction and for receiving honors such as the Whiting Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Ted Turner ⓘ |
| occupation | media mogul ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jane Shirley Smith
ⓘ
Ted Turner ⓘ |
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 Shirley Smith Description of subject: Jane Shirley Smith is known primarily as the first wife of American media mogul Ted Turner.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.