Jean Taynton
E371119
Jean Taynton is an American teacher best known as the former wife of actor John Lithgow.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Taynton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3585089 — 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: Jean Taynton Context triple: [John Lithgow, previousSpouse, Jean Taynton]
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A.
Jeanette Demont
Jeanette Demont was the first wife of American oil tycoon and art collector J. Paul Getty.
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B.
Jean Bullant
Jean Bullant was a 16th-century French Renaissance architect and sculptor known for his work on royal projects and his role in shaping classical architectural style in France.
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C.
Marion Bessay
Marion Bessay is a screenwriter known for her work on the film "Only Lovers Left Alive."
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D.
Satie Gossett
Satie Gossett is an American filmmaker and the son of Academy Award–winning actor Louis Gossett Jr.
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E.
Maria Jacquemetton
Maria Jacquemetton is a television writer and producer best known for her work on the critically acclaimed drama series "Mad Men."
- 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: Jean Taynton Target entity description: Jean Taynton is an American teacher best known as the former wife of actor John Lithgow.
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A.
Jeanette Demont
Jeanette Demont was the first wife of American oil tycoon and art collector J. Paul Getty.
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B.
Jean Bullant
Jean Bullant was a 16th-century French Renaissance architect and sculptor known for his work on royal projects and his role in shaping classical architectural style in France.
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C.
Marion Bessay
Marion Bessay is a screenwriter known for her work on the film "Only Lovers Left Alive."
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D.
Satie Gossett
Satie Gossett is an American filmmaker and the son of Academy Award–winning actor Louis Gossett Jr.
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E.
Maria Jacquemetton
Maria Jacquemetton is a television writer and producer best known for her work on the critically acclaimed drama series "Mad Men."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | former wife of John Lithgow ⓘ |
| occupation | teacher ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jean Taynton
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John Lithgow ⓘ |
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: Jean Taynton Description of subject: Jean Taynton is an American teacher best known as the former wife of actor John Lithgow.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jean Taynton