Laura Tao
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Laura Tao is the wife of renowned mathematician Terence Tao.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laura Tao canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2648125 — 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: Laura Tao Context triple: [Terence Tao, spouse, Laura Tao]
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A.
Karen Kwan
Karen Kwan is an American figure skater and the older sister of Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan.
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B.
Lori Huang
Lori Huang is the wife of NVIDIA co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang and is known for her low public profile despite her connection to the prominent tech executive.
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C.
Eileen Loo
Eileen Loo was the wife of renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei and a supportive partner throughout his celebrated career.
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D.
Gwen May-Wan Kao
Gwen May-Wan Kao is best known as the wife and long-time partner of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Charles K. Kao, often recognized for supporting his pioneering work in fiber-optic communications.
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E.
Lisa Ling
Lisa Ling is an American journalist, television presenter, and author known for her in-depth reporting and documentary work on social, cultural, and global issues.
- 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: Laura Tao Target entity description: Laura Tao is the wife of renowned mathematician Terence Tao.
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A.
Karen Kwan
Karen Kwan is an American figure skater and the older sister of Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan.
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B.
Lori Huang
Lori Huang is the wife of NVIDIA co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang and is known for her low public profile despite her connection to the prominent tech executive.
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C.
Eileen Loo
Eileen Loo was the wife of renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei and a supportive partner throughout his celebrated career.
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D.
Gwen May-Wan Kao
Gwen May-Wan Kao is best known as the wife and long-time partner of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Charles K. Kao, often recognized for supporting his pioneering work in fiber-optic communications.
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E.
Lisa Ling
Lisa Ling is an American journalist, television presenter, and author known for her in-depth reporting and documentary work on social, cultural, and global issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of mathematician Terence Tao ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Terence Tao ⓘ |
| spouse | Terence Tao ⓘ |
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: Laura Tao Description of subject: Laura Tao is the wife of renowned mathematician Terence Tao.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.