Maureen McCarthy Scalia
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Maureen McCarthy Scalia was the longtime wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the mother of their nine children, known for her role in their large Catholic family and public life alongside her husband.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maureen McCarthy Scalia canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1128458 — 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: Maureen McCarthy Scalia Context triple: [Antonin Scalia, spouse, Maureen McCarthy Scalia]
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A.
Sandra Day O’Connor
Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and a pivotal moderate conservative justice known for her influential swing votes in landmark cases.
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B.
Natalie Cornell Rehnquist
Natalie Cornell Rehnquist was the wife of William H. Rehnquist, the late Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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C.
Jane C. Ginsburg
Jane C. Ginsburg is an American legal scholar and Columbia Law School professor renowned for her expertise in copyright law.
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D.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pioneering American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and became a leading advocate for gender equality and civil rights.
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E.
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for her liberal jurisprudence, powerful dissents, and status as the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court.
- 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: Maureen McCarthy Scalia Target entity description: Maureen McCarthy Scalia was the longtime wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the mother of their nine children, known for her role in their large Catholic family and public life alongside her husband.
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A.
Sandra Day O’Connor
Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and a pivotal moderate conservative justice known for her influential swing votes in landmark cases.
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B.
Natalie Cornell Rehnquist
Natalie Cornell Rehnquist was the wife of William H. Rehnquist, the late Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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C.
Jane C. Ginsburg
Jane C. Ginsburg is an American legal scholar and Columbia Law School professor renowned for her expertise in copyright law.
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D.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pioneering American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and became a leading advocate for gender equality and civil rights.
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E.
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for her liberal jurisprudence, powerful dissents, and status as the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse of a United States Supreme Court justice ⓘ |
| almaMater | Radcliffe College ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Catholic organizations in the United States
ⓘ
U.S. Supreme Court community ⓘ |
| birthName | Maureen McCarthy ⓘ |
| child | Eugene Scalia ⓘ |
| country of citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Radcliffe College ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground |
Irish American
ⓘ
surface form:
Irish-American
|
| familyName |
Antonin Scalia
ⓘ
surface form:
Scalia
|
| familyReputation | example of a large practicing Catholic family in late 20th-century America ⓘ |
| givenName | Maureen ⓘ |
| knownFor |
appearing at public events with Antonin Scalia
ⓘ
raising a large Catholic family ⓘ supporting Antonin Scalia’s public and judicial career ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lifestyle | family-centered ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married to Antonin Scalia until his death ⓘ |
| marriageDuration | multiple decades ⓘ |
| marriageType | Catholic sacramental marriage ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | occasionally profiled in stories about Antonin Scalia’s family ⓘ |
| name | Maureen McCarthy Scalia self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the longtime wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
ⓘ
being the mother of nine children in a large Catholic family ⓘ |
| number of children | 9 ⓘ |
| number of daughters | 4 ⓘ |
| number of sons | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ |
| parent | Maureen McCarthy Scalia self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| politicalEnvironment | conservative American legal and political circles ⓘ |
| publicRole |
judicial spouse
ⓘ
mother of a prominent political figure, Eugene Scalia ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
|
| religious practice | active participation in Catholic parish life ⓘ |
| residence |
Virginia
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ suburbs of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity | private life and family life rather than public office ⓘ |
| spouse |
Antonin Scalia
ⓘ
Maureen McCarthy Scalia self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| spouseAppointedBy | Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| value |
commitment to Catholic faith
ⓘ
commitment to family life ⓘ |
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: Maureen McCarthy Scalia Description of subject: Maureen McCarthy Scalia was the longtime wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the mother of their nine children, known for her role in their large Catholic family and public life alongside her husband.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Antonin Scalia
subject surface form:
Eugene Scalia