Mary Borden
E153349
Mary Borden was the wife of American lawyer and statesman Thomas McKean, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and prominent figure in the early United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Borden canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1294125 — 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 Borden Context triple: [Thomas McKean, spouse, Mary Borden]
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A.
Mary Jane Ward
Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
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B.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
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C.
Anne Spencer Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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D.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
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E.
Marie De Forest
Marie De Forest, better known as Marie Mosquini, was an American silent film actress who frequently appeared in Hal Roach comedies during the 1910s and 1920s.
- 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 Borden Target entity description: Mary Borden was the wife of American lawyer and statesman Thomas McKean, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and prominent figure in the early United States.
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A.
Mary Jane Ward
Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
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B.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
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C.
Anne Spencer Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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D.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
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E.
Marie De Forest
Marie De Forest, better known as Marie Mosquini, was an American silent film actress who frequently appeared in Hal Roach comedies during the 1910s and 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
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American statesman ⓘ historical figure ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| signatory |
American Declaration of Independence
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surface form:
United States Declaration of Independence
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| spouse |
Mary Borden
self-linksurface differs
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Thomas McKean ⓘ |
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: Mary Borden Description of subject: Mary Borden was the wife of American lawyer and statesman Thomas McKean, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and prominent figure in the early United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thomas McKean