Elaine Mason
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Elaine Mason was a British nurse who became the second wife of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elaine Mason canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T317105 — 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: Elaine Mason Context triple: [Stephen Hawking, spouse, Elaine Mason]
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A.
Elaine Devry
Elaine Devry is an American actress known for her film and television roles in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Margo Anderson
Margo Anderson is best known as a former wife of American country music star Kenny Rogers.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Margo Wilson
Margo Wilson was a pioneering Canadian evolutionary psychologist best known for her influential research on violence, homicide, and parental investment, often conducted in collaboration with Martin Daly.
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E.
Donna Tubbs
Donna Tubbs is a central character in the animated sitcom universe of Family Guy and The Cleveland Show, known as Cleveland Brown's strong-willed, caring, and often no-nonsense wife.
- 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: Elaine Mason Target entity description: Elaine Mason was a British nurse who became the second wife of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
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A.
Elaine Devry
Elaine Devry is an American actress known for her film and television roles in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Margo Anderson
Margo Anderson is best known as a former wife of American country music star Kenny Rogers.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Margo Wilson
Margo Wilson was a pioneering Canadian evolutionary psychologist best known for her influential research on violence, homicide, and parental investment, often conducted in collaboration with Martin Daly.
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E.
Donna Tubbs
Donna Tubbs is a central character in the animated sitcom universe of Family Guy and The Cleveland Show, known as Cleveland Brown's strong-willed, caring, and often no-nonsense wife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
human ⓘ nurse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | Stephen Hawking ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White British ⓘ |
| familyName | Mason ⓘ |
| givenName | Elaine ⓘ |
| knownFor | marriage to Stephen Hawking ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced from Stephen Hawking ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 2006 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1995 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the second wife of Stephen Hawking ⓘ |
| notableWork | caregiving for Stephen Hawking ⓘ |
| occupation | nurse ⓘ |
| partOf | Hawking family ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | England ⓘ |
| positionHeld | nurse to Stephen Hawking ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Cambridge
ⓘ
linked to:
CAMBRIDGE
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
David Mason
ⓘ
Stephen Hawking ⓘ |
| spouseOfFamousPerson | Stephen Hawking ⓘ |
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: Elaine Mason Description of subject: Elaine Mason was a British nurse who became the second wife of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.