Ruth Ann Woodson
E213996
Ruth Ann Woodson was the longtime wife of American writer Richard Matheson, known primarily in relation to his life and career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruth Ann Woodson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1753813 — 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 Ann Woodson Context triple: [Richard Matheson, spouse, Ruth Ann Woodson]
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A.
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
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B.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Betty Jane Rase
Betty Jane Rase was an American woman best known for being one of the early wives of actor Mickey Rooney.
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D.
Sonja Hogg
Sonja Hogg is an American women's basketball coach best known for helping build Baylor University's women's program into a national contender.
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E.
Dorothy May
Dorothy May was the first wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford, remembered for her tragic death by drowning shortly after arriving in America in 1620.
- 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 Ann Woodson Target entity description: Ruth Ann Woodson was the longtime wife of American writer Richard Matheson, known primarily in relation to his life and career.
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A.
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
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B.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Betty Jane Rase
Betty Jane Rase was an American woman best known for being one of the early wives of actor Mickey Rooney.
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D.
Sonja Hogg
Sonja Hogg is an American women's basketball coach best known for helping build Baylor University's women's program into a national contender.
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E.
Dorothy May
Dorothy May was the first wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford, remembered for her tragic death by drowning shortly after arriving in America in 1620.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Richard Matheson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married to Richard Matheson ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the longtime wife of American writer Richard Matheson ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse |
Richard Matheson
ⓘ
Ruth Ann Woodson ⓘ |
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 Ann Woodson Description of subject: Ruth Ann Woodson was the longtime wife of American writer Richard Matheson, known primarily in relation to his life and career.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ruth Ann Woodson