Carol Henning
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Carol Henning was the first wife of American author John Steinbeck, with whom he lived during his early, formative years as a writer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carol Henning canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T763839 — 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: Carol Henning Context triple: [John Steinbeck, spouse, Carol Henning]
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A.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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B.
Carol Stevens
Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
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C.
Anne Marie Brenning
Anne Marie Brenning was the second wife of actor Peter Lorre, known primarily for her marriage to the famed character actor.
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D.
Lyn Davis
Lyn Davis is best known as the wife of influential American television writer and producer Norman Lear.
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E.
Emily Drinkard
Emily Drinkard, better known as Cissy Houston, is an American soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston.
- 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: Carol Henning Target entity description: Carol Henning was the first wife of American author John Steinbeck, with whom he lived during his early, formative years as a writer.
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A.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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B.
Carol Stevens
Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
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C.
Anne Marie Brenning
Anne Marie Brenning was the second wife of actor Peter Lorre, known primarily for her marriage to the famed character actor.
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D.
Lyn Davis
Lyn Davis is best known as the wife of influential American television writer and producer Norman Lear.
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E.
Emily Drinkard
Emily Drinkard, better known as Cissy Houston, is an American soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ spouse ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Literature
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| influenced | early writing career of John Steinbeck ⓘ |
| livedWith | John Steinbeck ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of John Steinbeck ⓘ |
| notableWork |
East of Eden
ⓘ
Of Mice and Men ⓘ The Grapes of Wrath ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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writer ⓘ |
| partOf | early life of John Steinbeck ⓘ |
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Monterey County, California ⓘ Pacific Grove, California ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| significantEvent | marriage to John Steinbeck ⓘ |
| spouse |
Carol Henning
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John Steinbeck ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Carol Henning Description of subject: Carol Henning was the first wife of American author John Steinbeck, with whom he lived during his early, formative years as a writer.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Carol Henning