Anna Torrey Sheldon
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Anna Torrey Sheldon was the wife of American physicist and Nobel laureate Raymond Davis Jr., known primarily in historical records for her role as his spouse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anna Torrey Sheldon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8363314 — 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: Anna Torrey Sheldon Context triple: [Raymond Davis Jr., spouse, Anna Torrey Sheldon]
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A.
Sarah Greer
Sarah Greer is a British academic and higher education leader who serves as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winchester.
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B.
Kate Burroughs
Kate Burroughs is the central protagonist of the film "The Four Seasons," around whom the story’s relationships and events revolve.
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C.
Stephanie Bishop
Stephanie Bishop is an actress known for her role in the British drama film "Looking for Eric," directed by Ken Loach.
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D.
Ann Christy
Ann Christy was an American film actress active in the late silent and early sound era, known for her roles in comedies and dramas of the 1920s and early 1930s.
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E.
Kate Barry
Kate Barry was a British-French photographer known for her intimate portraits of artists and celebrities, and as the daughter of Jane Birkin and composer John Barry.
- 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: Anna Torrey Sheldon Target entity description: Anna Torrey Sheldon was the wife of American physicist and Nobel laureate Raymond Davis Jr., known primarily in historical records for her role as his spouse.
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A.
Sarah Greer
Sarah Greer is a British academic and higher education leader who serves as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winchester.
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B.
Kate Burroughs
Kate Burroughs is the central protagonist of the film "The Four Seasons," around whom the story’s relationships and events revolve.
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C.
Stephanie Bishop
Stephanie Bishop is an actress known for her role in the British drama film "Looking for Eric," directed by Ken Loach.
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D.
Ann Christy
Ann Christy was an American film actress active in the late silent and early sound era, known for her roles in comedies and dramas of the 1920s and early 1930s.
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E.
Kate Barry
Kate Barry was a British-French photographer known for her intimate portraits of artists and celebrities, and as the daughter of Jane Birkin and composer John Barry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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human ⓘ physicist ⓘ spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Raymond Davis Jr. ⓘ |
| spouse | Anna Torrey Sheldon ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Raymond Davis Jr. ⓘ |
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: Anna Torrey Sheldon Description of subject: Anna Torrey Sheldon was the wife of American physicist and Nobel laureate Raymond Davis Jr., known primarily in historical records for her role as his spouse.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Anna Torrey Sheldon