Yvonne Blue Skinner
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Yvonne Blue Skinner was the wife of influential American psychologist B. F. Skinner and a supportive partner throughout his academic and professional career.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yvonne Blue | 1 |
| Yvonne Blue Skinner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T169293 — 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: Yvonne Blue Skinner Context triple: [B. F. Skinner, spouse, Yvonne Blue Skinner]
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A.
Anna Beth Sully
Anna Beth Sully was the first wife of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, whom she married before his rise to Hollywood fame.
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B.
Sylvia Ashley
Sylvia Ashley was a British model, showgirl, and socialite who became known for her high-profile marriages to several prominent men in the entertainment and aristocratic worlds.
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C.
Mina Miller
Mina Miller was an American socialite and philanthropist best known as the second wife of inventor Thomas Edison and for her extensive civic and charitable work.
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D.
Jocelyn Howard
Jocelyn Howard is an American television and film actress best known as the daughter of filmmaker and former child star Ron Howard.
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E.
Lila Hotz
Lila Hotz was the first wife of American magazine magnate Henry Luce, co-founder of Time Inc.
- 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: Yvonne Blue Skinner Target entity description: Yvonne Blue Skinner was the wife of influential American psychologist B. F. Skinner and a supportive partner throughout his academic and professional career.
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A.
Anna Beth Sully
Anna Beth Sully was the first wife of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, whom she married before his rise to Hollywood fame.
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B.
Sylvia Ashley
Sylvia Ashley was a British model, showgirl, and socialite who became known for her high-profile marriages to several prominent men in the entertainment and aristocratic worlds.
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C.
Mina Miller
Mina Miller was an American socialite and philanthropist best known as the second wife of inventor Thomas Edison and for her extensive civic and charitable work.
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D.
Jocelyn Howard
Jocelyn Howard is an American television and film actress best known as the daughter of filmmaker and former child star Ron Howard.
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E.
Lila Hotz
Lila Hotz was the first wife of American magazine magnate Henry Luce, co-founder of Time Inc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Yvonne Blue
ⓘ
linked to:
Yvonne Blue Skinner
|
| associatedWith |
B. F. Skinner’s research on behaviorism
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Skinner ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity | support of academic psychology ⓘ |
| givenName | Yvonne ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriedTo | B. F. Skinner ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of B. F. Skinner
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supporting B. F. Skinner’s academic career ⓘ supporting B. F. Skinner’s professional career ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| partnerOf | B. F. Skinner ⓘ |
| placeOfResidenceOfSpouse | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| residence |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Massachusetts ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| roleInLifeOf | supportive partner of B. F. Skinner ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor |
behaviorism
ⓘ
operant conditioning ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | psychologist ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
B. F. Skinner
ⓘ
Burrhus Frederic Skinner ⓘ |
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: Yvonne Blue Skinner Description of subject: Yvonne Blue Skinner was the wife of influential American psychologist B. F. Skinner and a supportive partner throughout his academic and professional career.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
B. F. Skinner (born Burrhus Frederic Skinner)
linked to: Yvonne Blue Skinner