Tarter
E536581
Tarter is the surname of Jill Tarter, an American astronomer renowned for her pioneering work in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tarter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5648836 — 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: Tarter Context triple: [Jill Tarter, familyName, Tarter]
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A.
Badian
Badian is a coastal municipality in southwestern Cebu, Philippines, known for attractions like Kawasan Falls and canyoneering activities.
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B.
Sychaeus
Sychaeus is a wealthy Phoenician nobleman and priest of Hercules in Roman mythology, best known as the murdered husband of Queen Dido of Carthage.
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C.
Carnide
Carnide is a civil parish and residential neighborhood in northern Lisbon, Portugal, known for its mix of historic village core and modern urban developments.
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D.
Kassis
Kassis is a family name of likely Levantine, particularly Palestinian or broader Arab, origin.
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E.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
- 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: Tarter Target entity description: Tarter is the surname of Jill Tarter, an American astronomer renowned for her pioneering work in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
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A.
Badian
Badian is a coastal municipality in southwestern Cebu, Philippines, known for attractions like Kawasan Falls and canyoneering activities.
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B.
Sychaeus
Sychaeus is a wealthy Phoenician nobleman and priest of Hercules in Roman mythology, best known as the murdered husband of Queen Dido of Carthage.
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C.
Carnide
Carnide is a civil parish and residential neighborhood in northern Lisbon, Portugal, known for its mix of historic village core and modern urban developments.
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D.
Kassis
Kassis is a family name of likely Levantine, particularly Palestinian or broader Arab, origin.
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E.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American astronomer
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human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization
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NASA Public Service Medal ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
Women in Technology International Hall of Fame induction ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornell University
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | SETI Institute ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
SETI
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astronomy ⓘ search for extraterrestrial intelligence ⓘ |
| hasGivenFocusTo |
development of SETI instrumentation
ⓘ
radio searches for extraterrestrial intelligence ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Jill Tarter ⓘ |
| influenced | public perception of the scientific search for extraterrestrial life ⓘ |
| knownFor | pioneering work in SETI ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | advocacy for continued funding of SETI research ⓘ |
| notableWork |
co-founding the SETI Institute
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leadership in Project Phoenix ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronomer
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scientist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Director of the Center for SETI Research ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| usedBy | Jill Tarter ⓘ |
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: Tarter Description of subject: Tarter is the surname of Jill Tarter, an American astronomer renowned for her pioneering work in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.