Jean Speegle Howard
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Jean Speegle Howard was an American character actress known for her work in film and television and as the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jean Speegle Howard canonical | 11 |
| Jean Frances Speegle | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T123164 — 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 Speegle Howard Context triple: [Ron Howard, parent, Jean Speegle Howard]
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A.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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B.
Ilo Browne Wallace
Ilo Browne Wallace was an American political spouse best known as the wife of Henry A. Wallace, the 33rd Vice President of the United States.
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C.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
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D.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
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E.
Myra Kraft
Myra Kraft was an American philanthropist and community leader best known for her extensive charitable work in the Boston area and her role in guiding the philanthropic efforts of the Kraft family.
- 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 Speegle Howard Target entity description: Jean Speegle Howard was an American character actress known for her work in film and television and as the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard.
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A.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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B.
Ilo Browne Wallace
Ilo Browne Wallace was an American political spouse best known as the wife of Henry A. Wallace, the 33rd Vice President of the United States.
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C.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
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D.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
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E.
Myra Kraft
Myra Kraft was an American philanthropist and community leader best known for her extensive charitable work in the Boston area and her role in guiding the philanthropic efforts of the Kraft family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Speegle Howard Description of subject: Jean Speegle Howard was an American character actress known for her work in film and television and as the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.