Arline Greenbaum
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Arline Greenbaum was the first wife of physicist Richard Feynman, remembered for their deeply devoted relationship during her struggle with tuberculosis in the 1940s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arline Greenbaum canonical | 4 |
| Arline Greenbaum (first wife of Richard Feynman, step-relative by family history context) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T26899 — 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: Arline Greenbaum Context triple: [Richard Feynman, spouse, Arline Greenbaum]
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A.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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B.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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C.
Deborah Prentice
Deborah Prentice is an American social psychologist and academic leader known for her work on social norms and for serving as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
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D.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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E.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
- 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: Arline Greenbaum Target entity description: Arline Greenbaum was the first wife of physicist Richard Feynman, remembered for their deeply devoted relationship during her struggle with tuberculosis in the 1940s.
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A.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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B.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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C.
Deborah Prentice
Deborah Prentice is an American social psychologist and academic leader known for her work on social norms and for serving as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
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D.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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E.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Arline Feynman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| genreOfAssociatedWork | love letters ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | letters exchanged with Richard Feynman ⓘ |
| hasQuality | devoted relationship with Richard Feynman ⓘ |
| hasThemeInAssociatedWorks |
love during terminal illness
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resilience in the face of disease ⓘ |
| inspired |
Feynman’s emotional development
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Feynman’s later reflections on love and loss ⓘ Richard Feynman ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medicalCondition | tuberculosis ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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What Do You Care What Other People Think? ⓘ |
| name | Arline Greenbaum ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central figure in Richard Feynman’s early life ⓘ |
| notableFor |
correspondence with Richard Feynman
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marriage to Richard Feynman ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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linked to:
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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linked to:
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
diagnosis with tuberculosis
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marriage to Richard Feynman during illness ⓘ |
| spouse |
Arline Greenbaum
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Richard Feynman ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation | physicist ⓘ |
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: Arline Greenbaum Description of subject: Arline Greenbaum was the first wife of physicist Richard Feynman, remembered for their deeply devoted relationship during her struggle with tuberculosis in the 1940s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Michelle Feynman
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hasRelative
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Arline Greenbaum (first wife of Richard Feynman, step-relative by family history context)
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linked to: Arline Greenbaum
subject linked to:
Arline Greenbaum