Jane Livesey
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Jane Livesey is best known as the wife of the late English actor Bob Hoskins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jane Livesey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1577947 — 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 Livesey Context triple: [Bob Hoskins, spouse, Jane Livesey]
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A.
Yvette Livesey
Yvette Livesey is a former Miss United Kingdom and music industry figure best known as the long-term partner of Manchester music impresario Tony Wilson and co-organizer of the In the City music conference.
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B.
Betsy Drake
Betsy Drake was an American actress and writer best known for her film work in the late 1940s and 1950s and for her influential role in the life and career of Cary Grant.
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C.
Lucy Lloyd
Lucy Lloyd was a 19th-century South African linguist and ethnographer renowned for her pioneering documentation of the |Xam and other indigenous San languages and oral traditions.
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D.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley was the wife of English writer Daniel Defoe, known primarily through her marriage to the famed author of "Robinson Crusoe."
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E.
Elizabeth Shaw Melville
Elizabeth Shaw Melville was the wife of American novelist Herman Melville and the daughter of Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, known for her extensive correspondence and role in preserving Melville’s literary legacy.
- 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 Livesey Target entity description: Jane Livesey is best known as the wife of the late English actor Bob Hoskins.
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A.
Yvette Livesey
Yvette Livesey is a former Miss United Kingdom and music industry figure best known as the long-term partner of Manchester music impresario Tony Wilson and co-organizer of the In the City music conference.
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B.
Betsy Drake
Betsy Drake was an American actress and writer best known for her film work in the late 1940s and 1950s and for her influential role in the life and career of Cary Grant.
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C.
Lucy Lloyd
Lucy Lloyd was a 19th-century South African linguist and ethnographer renowned for her pioneering documentation of the |Xam and other indigenous San languages and oral traditions.
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D.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley was the wife of English writer Daniel Defoe, known primarily through her marriage to the famed author of "Robinson Crusoe."
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E.
Elizabeth Shaw Melville
Elizabeth Shaw Melville was the wife of American novelist Herman Melville and the daughter of Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, known for her extensive correspondence and role in preserving Melville’s literary legacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (4)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of English actor Bob Hoskins ⓘ |
| spouse | Bob Hoskins ⓘ |
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 Livesey Description of subject: Jane Livesey is best known as the wife of the late English actor Bob Hoskins.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.