Carol Shearer
E610877
Carol Shearer is the wife of prolific fantasy and science fiction author Piers Anthony.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carol Shearer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4666488 — 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: Carol Shearer Context triple: [Piers Anthony, spouse, Carol Shearer]
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A.
Nancy Schafer
Nancy Schafer is a film and television producer known for her work on independent and documentary projects.
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B.
Carole Eastman
Carole Eastman was an American screenwriter best known for her incisive character-driven work in 1970s New Hollywood cinema, including the film "Five Easy Pieces."
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C.
Eileen Shearer
Eileen Shearer is a political figure best known for founding the American Independent Party in the United States.
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D.
Diane Millstead
Diane Millstead is an Australian academic and writer best known as the former wife of comedian and satirist Barry Humphries.
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E.
Gail Klintworth
Gail Klintworth is a business leader known for her senior roles in global consumer goods companies and her work advancing responsible, sustainable business practices.
- 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: Carol Shearer Target entity description: Carol Shearer is the wife of prolific fantasy and science fiction author Piers Anthony.
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A.
Nancy Schafer
Nancy Schafer is a film and television producer known for her work on independent and documentary projects.
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B.
Carole Eastman
Carole Eastman was an American screenwriter best known for her incisive character-driven work in 1970s New Hollywood cinema, including the film "Five Easy Pieces."
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C.
Eileen Shearer
Eileen Shearer is a political figure best known for founding the American Independent Party in the United States.
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D.
Diane Millstead
Diane Millstead is an Australian academic and writer best known as the former wife of comedian and satirist Barry Humphries.
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E.
Gail Klintworth
Gail Klintworth is a business leader known for her senior roles in global consumer goods companies and her work advancing responsible, sustainable business practices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy literature
ⓘ
science fiction literature ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of fantasy and science fiction author Piers Anthony ⓘ |
| occupation | writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Carol Shearer
ⓘ
Piers Anthony ⓘ |
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: Carol Shearer Description of subject: Carol Shearer is the wife of prolific fantasy and science fiction author Piers Anthony.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Carol Shearer