Diane Smith
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Diane Smith is known as the wife of Frederick W. Smith, the founder and longtime CEO of FedEx.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Diane Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10257125 — 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: Diane Smith Context triple: [Frederick Wallace Smith, spouse, Diane Smith]
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A.
Diane Alexander
Diane Alexander is an American former dancer and fashion designer best known as the ex-wife of singer Lionel Richie.
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B.
Gail Dwyer
Gail Dwyer is a central comedic character in the 1995 romantic comedy film "Nine Months," portrayed as the pregnant partner whose unexpected news upends her boyfriend's carefree life.
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C.
Gail Brown
Gail Brown is an American actress and the sister of acclaimed film and television actress Karen Black.
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D.
Carol Davis
Carol Davis is the mother of Mark Davis, the principal owner and managing general partner of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders.
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E.
Carole Bishop
Carole Bishop is known as the spouse of Nobel Prize–winning American cancer researcher and virologist John Michael Bishop.
- 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: Diane Smith Target entity description: Diane Smith is known as the wife of Frederick W. Smith, the founder and longtime CEO of FedEx.
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A.
Diane Alexander
Diane Alexander is an American former dancer and fashion designer best known as the ex-wife of singer Lionel Richie.
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B.
Gail Dwyer
Gail Dwyer is a central comedic character in the 1995 romantic comedy film "Nine Months," portrayed as the pregnant partner whose unexpected news upends her boyfriend's carefree life.
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C.
Gail Brown
Gail Brown is an American actress and the sister of acclaimed film and television actress Karen Black.
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D.
Carol Davis
Carol Davis is the mother of Mark Davis, the principal owner and managing general partner of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders.
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E.
Carole Bishop
Carole Bishop is known as the spouse of Nobel Prize–winning American cancer researcher and virologist John Michael Bishop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| chiefExecutiveOfficerOf | FedEx ⓘ |
| founderOf | FedEx ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Frederick W. Smith ⓘ |
| spouse | Frederick W. Smith ⓘ |
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: Diane Smith Description of subject: Diane Smith is known as the wife of Frederick W. Smith, the founder and longtime CEO of FedEx.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.