Ann Smiley
E245051
Ann Smiley is the unfaithful and enigmatic wife of British intelligence officer George Smiley in John le Carré’s spy novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ann Smiley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217669 — 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: Ann Smiley Context triple: [George Smiley, spouse, Ann Smiley]
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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.
Kathleen Buchanan Smith
Kathleen Buchanan Smith was the wife of British physicist and Nobel laureate George Paget Thomson.
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C.
Jane Fulks
Jane Fulks is the birth name of Jane Wyman, the Academy Award–winning American actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.
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D.
Kaye Brinker
Kaye Brinker was the wife of American film and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
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E.
Ann Schmeltz Bowers
Ann Schmeltz Bowers is an American technology executive and philanthropist known for her early leadership roles at Intel and Apple and for her significant charitable contributions, particularly in education and technology.
- 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: Ann Smiley Target entity description: Ann Smiley is the unfaithful and enigmatic wife of British intelligence officer George Smiley in John le Carré’s spy novels.
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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.
Kathleen Buchanan Smith
Kathleen Buchanan Smith was the wife of British physicist and Nobel laureate George Paget Thomson.
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C.
Jane Fulks
Jane Fulks is the birth name of Jane Wyman, the Academy Award–winning American actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.
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D.
Kaye Brinker
Kaye Brinker was the wife of American film and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
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E.
Ann Schmeltz Bowers
Ann Schmeltz Bowers is an American technology executive and philanthropist known for her early leadership roles at Intel and Apple and for her significant charitable contributions, particularly in education and technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: Ann Smiley Description of subject: Ann Smiley is the unfaithful and enigmatic wife of British intelligence officer George Smiley in John le Carré’s spy novels.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.