Carol Shive
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Carol Shive is an American violinist best known for her work in jazz fusion, particularly as a member of the pioneering group Mahavishnu Orchestra.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carol Shive canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4942407 — 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 Shive Context triple: [Mahavishnu Orchestra, hasMember, Carol Shive]
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A.
Laura Shavin
Laura Shavin is a British actress, comedian, and voiceover artist best known for her work on BBC Radio 4 comedy programmes.
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B.
Sherry Nelson
Sherry Nelson is known as the former spouse of Academy Award–winning American actor Rod Steiger.
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C.
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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D.
Glenna Goodacre
Glenna Goodacre was an American sculptor renowned for her figurative public monuments, including the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the design of the U.S. Sacagawea dollar coin.
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E.
Nancy Schafer
Nancy Schafer is a film and television producer known for her work on independent and documentary projects.
- 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 Shive Target entity description: Carol Shive is an American violinist best known for her work in jazz fusion, particularly as a member of the pioneering group Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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A.
Laura Shavin
Laura Shavin is a British actress, comedian, and voiceover artist best known for her work on BBC Radio 4 comedy programmes.
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B.
Sherry Nelson
Sherry Nelson is known as the former spouse of Academy Award–winning American actor Rod Steiger.
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C.
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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D.
Glenna Goodacre
Glenna Goodacre was an American sculptor renowned for her figurative public monuments, including the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the design of the U.S. Sacagawea dollar coin.
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E.
Nancy Schafer
Nancy Schafer is a film and television producer known for her work on independent and documentary projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
musician ⓘ violinist ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Mahavishnu Orchestra ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | jazz fusion ⓘ |
| instrument | violin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a member of Mahavishnu Orchestra
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work in jazz fusion ⓘ |
| memberOf | Mahavishnu Orchestra ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | performances with Mahavishnu Orchestra ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
violinist ⓘ |
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 Shive Description of subject: Carol Shive is an American violinist best known for her work in jazz fusion, particularly as a member of the pioneering group Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.