John W. Regan
E233045
John W. Regan was the husband of American silent film actress Helene Costello.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John W. Regan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1846549 — 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: John W. Regan Context triple: [Helene Costello, spouse, John W. Regan]
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A.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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B.
Don Roberts
Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
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C.
William C. Reynolds
William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
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D.
John W. Considine Jr.
John W. Considine Jr. was an American film producer active during Hollywood’s early studio era, known for overseeing a range of feature productions.
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E.
Edward E. Carlson
Edward E. Carlson was an American hotel executive and civic leader best known for conceiving and championing the Space Needle as the centerpiece of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
- 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: John W. Regan Target entity description: John W. Regan was the husband of American silent film actress Helene Costello.
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A.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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B.
Don Roberts
Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
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C.
William C. Reynolds
William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
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D.
John W. Considine Jr.
John W. Considine Jr. was an American film producer active during Hollywood’s early studio era, known for overseeing a range of feature productions.
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E.
Edward E. Carlson
Edward E. Carlson was an American hotel executive and civic leader best known for conceiving and championing the Space Needle as the centerpiece of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American silent film actress
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the husband of American silent film actress Helene Costello ⓘ |
| spouse |
Helene Costello
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John W. Regan ⓘ |
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: John W. Regan Description of subject: John W. Regan was the husband of American silent film actress Helene Costello.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John W. Regan