Catherine Spaulding Kerr
E214591
Catherine Spaulding Kerr was the wife of influential American educator and University of California president Clark Kerr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Catherine Spaulding Kerr canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T789376 — 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: Catherine Spaulding Kerr Context triple: [Clark Kerr, spouse, Catherine Spaulding Kerr]
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A.
Jeanne Campbell
Jeanne Campbell was a British socialite and journalist known for her connections to prominent literary and political figures, including her marriage to American novelist Norman Mailer.
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B.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
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C.
Katherine Lester
Katherine Lester is a central character in the period drama film "Lady Macbeth," known for her intense and morally complex journey portrayed by Florence Pugh.
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D.
Elinor Junkin
Elinor Junkin was the first wife of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who died young shortly after their marriage in the 1850s.
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E.
Catherine Ann Dunn
Catherine Ann Dunn is known as the wife of American politician and four-time New York governor Al Smith.
- 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: Catherine Spaulding Kerr Target entity description: Catherine Spaulding Kerr was the wife of influential American educator and University of California president Clark Kerr.
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A.
Jeanne Campbell
Jeanne Campbell was a British socialite and journalist known for her connections to prominent literary and political figures, including her marriage to American novelist Norman Mailer.
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B.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
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C.
Katherine Lester
Katherine Lester is a central character in the period drama film "Lady Macbeth," known for her intense and morally complex journey portrayed by Florence Pugh.
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D.
Elinor Junkin
Elinor Junkin was the first wife of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who died young shortly after their marriage in the 1850s.
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E.
Catherine Ann Dunn
Catherine Ann Dunn is known as the wife of American politician and four-time New York governor Al Smith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Kerr ⓘ |
| givenName | Catherine ⓘ |
| name | Catherine Spaulding Kerr ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of American educator Clark Kerr ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
university administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of the University of California ⓘ |
| spouse |
Catherine Spaulding Kerr
ⓘ
Clark Kerr ⓘ |
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: Catherine Spaulding Kerr Description of subject: Catherine Spaulding Kerr was the wife of influential American educator and University of California president Clark Kerr.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.