Patricia Law Skinner
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Patricia Law Skinner is a British academic and historian best known as the first wife of prominent moral philosopher Bernard Williams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patricia Law Skinner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3706325 — 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: Patricia Law Skinner Context triple: [Bernard Williams, spouse, Patricia Law Skinner]
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A.
Patricia Carey
Patricia Carey is an Irish-American opera singer and vocal coach best known as the mother of pop superstar Mariah Carey.
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B.
Patricia Price
Patricia Price is best known as the first wife of legendary American comedian and actor Richard Pryor.
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C.
Patricia Scott
Patricia Scott was the first wife of acclaimed film and theater director Mike Nichols.
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D.
Kathy Baker
Kathy Baker is an American actress acclaimed for her nuanced performances in film and television, particularly for her role in the series "Picket Fences."
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E.
Dorothy DeLay
Dorothy DeLay was a renowned American violin teacher at the Juilliard School, celebrated for mentoring many of the 20th century’s leading virtuoso violinists.
- 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: Patricia Law Skinner Target entity description: Patricia Law Skinner is a British academic and historian best known as the first wife of prominent moral philosopher Bernard Williams.
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A.
Patricia Carey
Patricia Carey is an Irish-American opera singer and vocal coach best known as the mother of pop superstar Mariah Carey.
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B.
Patricia Price
Patricia Price is best known as the first wife of legendary American comedian and actor Richard Pryor.
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C.
Patricia Scott
Patricia Scott was the first wife of acclaimed film and theater director Mike Nichols.
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D.
Kathy Baker
Kathy Baker is an American actress acclaimed for her nuanced performances in film and television, particularly for her role in the series "Picket Fences."
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E.
Dorothy DeLay
Dorothy DeLay was a renowned American violin teacher at the Juilliard School, celebrated for mentoring many of the 20th century’s leading virtuoso violinists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
historian ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | moral philosophy ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Bernard Williams ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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historian ⓘ |
| spouse |
Bernard Williams
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Patricia Law Skinner ⓘ |
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: Patricia Law Skinner Description of subject: Patricia Law Skinner is a British academic and historian best known as the first wife of prominent moral philosopher Bernard Williams.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Patricia Law Skinner