Mary Horner Lyell
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Mary Horner Lyell was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell on his research and travels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Horner Lyell canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T80964 — 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: Mary Horner Lyell Context triple: [Charles Lyell, spouse, Mary Horner Lyell]
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A.
Emma Darwin
Emma Darwin was an English woman best known as the devoted wife and first cousin of naturalist Charles Darwin, who supported his scientific work and managed their large family.
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B.
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish geologist whose work on uniformitarianism and deep geological time profoundly shaped modern geology and influenced evolutionary thinkers.
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C.
Mary Eleanor Darwin
Mary Eleanor Darwin was one of the daughters of naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, who died in early childhood.
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D.
Marie Tharp
Marie Tharp was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer whose pioneering seafloor maps provided crucial evidence for plate tectonics and transformed our understanding of the ocean floor.
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E.
George Howard Darwin
George Howard Darwin was a British astronomer and mathematician known for his work on tidal theory and the evolution of the Earth–Moon system.
- 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: Mary Horner Lyell Target entity description: Mary Horner Lyell was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell on his research and travels.
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A.
Emma Darwin
Emma Darwin was an English woman best known as the devoted wife and first cousin of naturalist Charles Darwin, who supported his scientific work and managed their large family.
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B.
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish geologist whose work on uniformitarianism and deep geological time profoundly shaped modern geology and influenced evolutionary thinkers.
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C.
Mary Eleanor Darwin
Mary Eleanor Darwin was one of the daughters of naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, who died in early childhood.
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D.
Marie Tharp
Marie Tharp was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer whose pioneering seafloor maps provided crucial evidence for plate tectonics and transformed our understanding of the ocean floor.
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E.
George Howard Darwin
George Howard Darwin was a British astronomer and mathematician known for his work on tidal theory and the evolution of the Earth–Moon system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century scientist
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British scientist ⓘ conchologist ⓘ scientific illustrator ⓘ |
| areaOfInterest |
molluscs
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shells ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
geology
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natural history ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary Elizabeth Horner ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Charles Lyell ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName |
Charles Lyell
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surface form:
Lyell
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| fieldOfWork |
conchology
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natural history illustration ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | scientific illustration ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Mary Horner Lyell self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborating on geological research with Charles Lyell
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collecting and studying shells ⓘ |
| occupation |
conchologist
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naturalist ⓘ scientific illustrator ⓘ |
| participatedIn | scientific travel with Charles Lyell ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouse | Charles Lyell ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | geologist ⓘ |
| supportedWorkOf | Charles Lyell ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mary Horner Lyell Description of subject: Mary Horner Lyell was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell on his research and travels.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.