Jane Cairns
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Jane Cairns was the first wife of renowned American clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, whom he married before rising to major swing-era fame.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jane Cairns canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7382446 — 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: Jane Cairns Context triple: [Artie Shaw, spouse, Jane Cairns]
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A.
Laura Merriman
Laura Merriman is known as the spouse of Dwight Merriman, the co-founder and former CEO of DoubleClick and co-founder of MongoDB.
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B.
Carol Richards
Carol Richards was an American singer best remembered for her popular mid-20th-century vocal performances, including classic holiday recordings.
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C.
Lisa Baird
Lisa Baird is an American sports executive who served as commissioner of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
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D.
Ann Denman
Ann Denman was the wife of renowned English neoclassical sculptor John Flaxman, known primarily through her close association with his life and work.
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E.
Kathryn Morris
Kathryn Morris is an American actress best known for her lead role as Detective Lilly Rush on the television series "Cold Case."
- 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: Jane Cairns Target entity description: Jane Cairns was the first wife of renowned American clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, whom he married before rising to major swing-era fame.
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A.
Laura Merriman
Laura Merriman is known as the spouse of Dwight Merriman, the co-founder and former CEO of DoubleClick and co-founder of MongoDB.
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B.
Carol Richards
Carol Richards was an American singer best remembered for her popular mid-20th-century vocal performances, including classic holiday recordings.
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C.
Lisa Baird
Lisa Baird is an American sports executive who served as commissioner of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
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D.
Ann Denman
Ann Denman was the wife of renowned English neoclassical sculptor John Flaxman, known primarily through her close association with his life and work.
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E.
Kathryn Morris
Kathryn Morris is an American actress best known for her lead role as Detective Lilly Rush on the television series "Cold Case."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | swing music ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
clarinetist ⓘ unknown ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Artie Shaw ⓘ |
| spouse |
Artie Shaw
ⓘ
Jane Cairns ⓘ |
| startTimeOfMarriageToArtieShaw | before Artie Shaw's major swing-era fame ⓘ |
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: Jane Cairns Description of subject: Jane Cairns was the first wife of renowned American clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, whom he married before rising to major swing-era fame.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.