Kay McNulty
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Kay McNulty was an Irish-born American mathematician and one of the original programmers of the ENIAC, making her a pioneer in early computer science.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kay McNulty canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11793738 — 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: Kay McNulty Context triple: [Kathleen McNulty Mauchly, alsoKnownAs, Kay McNulty]
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A.
Nicole Perlman
Nicole Perlman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Marvel's hit space-superhero film "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014) and helping launch the studio's cosmic cinematic storytelling.
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B.
Skylar Tibbits
Skylar Tibbits is an architect, designer, and computer scientist known for pioneering 4D printing and programmable materials through his leadership of MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab.
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C.
Jane Hamsher
Jane Hamsher is an American film producer, writer, and political blogger best known for co-producing the controversial film "Natural Born Killers" and founding the progressive blog Firedoglake.
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D.
Kathryn Bostic
Kathryn Bostic is an American composer and pianist known for her evocative film and theater scores, particularly in independent cinema and stage productions.
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E.
Rebecca Jarvis
Rebecca Jarvis is an American journalist and television correspondent best known for her business and financial reporting, including her work with ABC News and as host of the podcast "The Dropout."
- 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: Kay McNulty Target entity description: Kay McNulty was an Irish-born American mathematician and one of the original programmers of the ENIAC, making her a pioneer in early computer science.
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A.
Nicole Perlman
Nicole Perlman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Marvel's hit space-superhero film "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014) and helping launch the studio's cosmic cinematic storytelling.
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B.
Skylar Tibbits
Skylar Tibbits is an architect, designer, and computer scientist known for pioneering 4D printing and programmable materials through his leadership of MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab.
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C.
Jane Hamsher
Jane Hamsher is an American film producer, writer, and political blogger best known for co-producing the controversial film "Natural Born Killers" and founding the progressive blog Firedoglake.
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D.
Kathryn Bostic
Kathryn Bostic is an American composer and pianist known for her evocative film and theater scores, particularly in independent cinema and stage productions.
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E.
Rebecca Jarvis
Rebecca Jarvis is an American journalist and television correspondent best known for her business and financial reporting, including her work with ABC News and as host of the podcast "The Dropout."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ pioneer of computer science ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli
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linked to:
Kathleen McNulty Mauchly
Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli ⓘ
linked to:
Kay McNulty Mauchly
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| birthName | Kathleen Rita McNulty ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ireland
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United States of America ⓘ |
| degree | bachelor's degree in mathematics ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Chestnut Hill College ⓘ |
| employer |
Moore School of Electrical Engineering
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U.S. Army ⓘ
linked to:
United States Army
|
| ethnicOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| familyName | McNulty ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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numerical analysis ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Kathleen ⓘ |
| hasRole |
ballistics computer
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human computer ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of computer programming techniques
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recognition of women in computing history ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Irish ⓘ |
| memberOf | ENIAC programmers ⓘ |
| name | Kay McNulty ⓘ |
| nickname | Kay ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
one of the original ENIAC programmers
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pioneer of electronic digital computer programming ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ballistics calculations for the U.S. Army using ENIAC
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manual setup and wiring of ENIAC programs ⓘ |
| notableStudentOrTrainee | early computer programmers trained on ENIAC ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ENIAC programming
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early electronic digital computing ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer programmer
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mathematician ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of ENIAC
ⓘ
history of women in computing ⓘ |
| programmed |
BINAC
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EDVAC ⓘ ENIAC ⓘ UNIVAC I ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse |
John William Mauchly
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linked to:
John W. Mauchly
Seymour Antonelli ⓘ |
| workLocation | Philadelphia ⓘ |
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: Kay McNulty Description of subject: Kay McNulty was an Irish-born American mathematician and one of the original programmers of the ENIAC, making her a pioneer in early computer science.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.