Pickersgill
E145113
Pickersgill is the surname of Mary Pickersgill, the American flag maker best known for sewing the large Star-Spangled Banner flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pickersgill canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1267506 — 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: Pickersgill Context triple: [Mary Pickersgill, familyName, Pickersgill]
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A.
Snodgrass
Snodgrass is a surname of English and Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Hoyte
Hoyte is the first name of Hoyte van Hoytema, a renowned Dutch-Swedish cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk."
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C.
Fawler
Fawler is a small rural village in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England.
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D.
Balfe
Balfe is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as music, acting, and politics.
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E.
Rackwick
Rackwick is a small, remote coastal settlement on the island of Hoy in Orkney, Scotland, known for its dramatic cliffs, sandy bay, and rugged natural scenery.
- 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: Pickersgill Target entity description: Pickersgill is the surname of Mary Pickersgill, the American flag maker best known for sewing the large Star-Spangled Banner flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
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A.
Snodgrass
Snodgrass is a surname of English and Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Hoyte
Hoyte is the first name of Hoyte van Hoytema, a renowned Dutch-Swedish cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk."
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C.
Fawler
Fawler is a small rural village in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England.
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D.
Balfe
Balfe is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as music, acting, and politics.
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E.
Rackwick
Rackwick is a small, remote coastal settlement on the island of Hoy in Orkney, Scotland, known for its dramatic cliffs, sandy bay, and rugged natural scenery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
flag ⓘ flag maker ⓘ fort ⓘ national anthem ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ war ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Mary Pickersgill ⓘ |
| familyName | Pickersgill self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| inspired |
The Star-Spangled Banner
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surface form:
The Star-Spangled Banner (anthem)
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| knownFor |
making the garrison flag flown over Fort McHenry
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role in the War of 1812 ⓘ sewing the large Star-Spangled Banner flag ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baltimore
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Maryland ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Baltimore ⓘ |
| participant |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| usedAt | Fort McHenry ⓘ |
| usedBy | Mary Pickersgill ⓘ |
| usedDuring | War of 1812 ⓘ |
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: Pickersgill Description of subject: Pickersgill is the surname of Mary Pickersgill, the American flag maker best known for sewing the large Star-Spangled Banner flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mary Pickersgill
subject surface form:
Caroline Pickersgill