Dorothy Auerbach
E182031
Dorothy Auerbach was the wife of legendary Boston Celtics coach and executive Red Auerbach.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorothy Auerbach canonical | 3 |
| Nancy Auerbach | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T513416 — 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: Dorothy Auerbach Context triple: [Red Auerbach, spouse, Dorothy Auerbach]
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A.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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B.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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C.
Lynne Hollander
Lynne Hollander is an American activist best known for her involvement in the 1960s Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and her longtime partnership with fellow activist Mario Savio.
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D.
Erica Sherover
Erica Sherover was a scholar and activist best known as the partner and later wife of critical theorist Herbert Marcuse, with whom she collaborated intellectually and politically.
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E.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- 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: Dorothy Auerbach Target entity description: Dorothy Auerbach was the wife of legendary Boston Celtics coach and executive Red Auerbach.
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A.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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B.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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C.
Lynne Hollander
Lynne Hollander is an American activist best known for her involvement in the 1960s Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and her longtime partnership with fellow activist Mario Savio.
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D.
Erica Sherover
Erica Sherover was a scholar and activist best known as the partner and later wife of critical theorist Herbert Marcuse, with whom she collaborated intellectually and politically.
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E.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| employer | Boston Celtics ⓘ |
| name | Dorothy Auerbach ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
ⓘ
basketball executive ⓘ |
| spouse |
Dorothy Auerbach
ⓘ
Red Auerbach ⓘ |
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: Dorothy Auerbach Description of subject: Dorothy Auerbach was the wife of legendary Boston Celtics coach and executive Red Auerbach.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.