Joyce McClure
E682102
Joyce McClure is known as the spouse of Andy Hertzfeld, a prominent software engineer and key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joyce McClure canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4850029 — 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: Joyce McClure Context triple: [Andy Hertzfeld, spouse, Joyce McClure]
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A.
Joyce Hunt
Joyce Hunt is the wife of British politician John Hunt, Baron Hunt, and a member of the UK political peer’s family.
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B.
Joyce Redman
Joyce Redman was an Irish-born British actress known for her character roles in film, television, and theatre, including acclaimed performances in adaptations of classic literature.
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C.
Joyce Johnston
Joyce Johnston is known as the wife of American record producer Bob Johnston, who worked with major artists such as Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash.
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D.
Joanna Glenn
Joanna Glenn is the wife of American actor Scott Glenn, known for maintaining a private life largely outside the public spotlight.
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E.
Maureen Swanson
Maureen Swanson was a British actress active in the 1950s, known for her roles in comedy and drama films before later becoming the Countess of Dudley.
- 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: Joyce McClure Target entity description: Joyce McClure is known as the spouse of Andy Hertzfeld, a prominent software engineer and key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team.
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A.
Joyce Hunt
Joyce Hunt is the wife of British politician John Hunt, Baron Hunt, and a member of the UK political peer’s family.
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B.
Joyce Redman
Joyce Redman was an Irish-born British actress known for her character roles in film, television, and theatre, including acclaimed performances in adaptations of classic literature.
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C.
Joyce Johnston
Joyce Johnston is known as the wife of American record producer Bob Johnston, who worked with major artists such as Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash.
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D.
Joanna Glenn
Joanna Glenn is the wife of American actor Scott Glenn, known for maintaining a private life largely outside the public spotlight.
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E.
Maureen Swanson
Maureen Swanson was a British actress active in the 1950s, known for her roles in comedy and drama films before later becoming the Countess of Dudley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| employer |
Apple Computer (historical)
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Inc.
|
| knownFor | original Apple Macintosh development team ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the spouse of Andy Hertzfeld ⓘ |
| occupation | software engineer ⓘ |
| spouse |
Andy Hertzfeld
ⓘ
Joyce McClure ⓘ |
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: Joyce McClure Description of subject: Joyce McClure is known as the spouse of Andy Hertzfeld, a prominent software engineer and key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Joyce McClure