Nancy Gross
E230075
Nancy Gross was the wife of renowned American film director Howard Hawks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nancy Gross canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T821074 — 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: Nancy Gross Context triple: [Howard Hawks, spouse, Nancy Gross]
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A.
Nancy Shevell
Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman and heiress best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to musician Paul McCartney.
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B.
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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C.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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D.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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E.
Roberta Seidman
Roberta Seidman was the wife of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Nancy Gross Target entity description: Nancy Gross was the wife of renowned American film director Howard Hawks.
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A.
Nancy Shevell
Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman and heiress best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to musician Paul McCartney.
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B.
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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C.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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D.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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E.
Roberta Seidman
Roberta Seidman was the wife of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| occupation | film director ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Howard Hawks
ⓘ
Nancy Gross ⓘ |
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: Nancy Gross Description of subject: Nancy Gross was the wife of renowned American film director Howard Hawks.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.