Mary J. Lincoln
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Mary J. Lincoln was a pioneering American cookbook author and one of the first professional cooking instructors, best known for helping to establish scientific, standardized methods of domestic cookery in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary J. Lincoln canonical | 2 |
| Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln | 1 |
| Mrs. D. A. Lincoln | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1896254 — 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 J. Lincoln Context triple: [Boston Cooking School, notablePerson, Mary J. Lincoln]
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A.
Julia Dent Grant
Julia Dent Grant was the First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877 as the wife of President Ulysses S. Grant and was known for her social prominence and support of her husband's military and political career.
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B.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln was the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, known for her political influence, personal tragedies, and controversial public image during and after the Civil War.
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C.
Jessie Harlan Lincoln
Jessie Harlan Lincoln was the granddaughter of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and the daughter of statesman and lawyer Robert Todd Lincoln.
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D.
Lucy Webb Hayes
Lucy Webb Hayes was the First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881, known for her advocacy of temperance and her active role in social and political life during her husband Rutherford B. Hayes’s presidency.
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E.
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison was the First Lady of the United States in 1841 as the wife of President William Henry Harrison and is noted for never having lived in the White House during his brief term.
- 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 J. Lincoln Target entity description: Mary J. Lincoln was a pioneering American cookbook author and one of the first professional cooking instructors, best known for helping to establish scientific, standardized methods of domestic cookery in the late 19th century.
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A.
Julia Dent Grant
Julia Dent Grant was the First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877 as the wife of President Ulysses S. Grant and was known for her social prominence and support of her husband's military and political career.
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B.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln was the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, known for her political influence, personal tragedies, and controversial public image during and after the Civil War.
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C.
Jessie Harlan Lincoln
Jessie Harlan Lincoln was the granddaughter of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and the daughter of statesman and lawyer Robert Todd Lincoln.
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D.
Lucy Webb Hayes
Lucy Webb Hayes was the First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881, known for her advocacy of temperance and her active role in social and political life during her husband Rutherford B. Hayes’s presidency.
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E.
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison was the First Lady of the United States in 1841 as the wife of President William Henry Harrison and is noted for never having lived in the White House during his brief term.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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cookbook author ⓘ cooking instructor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mary J. Lincoln
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surface form:
Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln
Mary J. Lincoln ⓘ
surface form:
Mrs. D. A. Lincoln
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
culinary history literature
ⓘ
historical accounts of American domestic science ⓘ |
| employer | Boston Cooking School ⓘ |
| familyName | Lincoln ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cookery
ⓘ
domestic science ⓘ home economics ⓘ |
| genre |
cookbook
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domestic science manual ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| influenced | Fannie Farmer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
cooking
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household management ⓘ |
| movement |
scientific cookery
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standardized domestic cookery ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping standardize American home cooking in the late 19th century
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pioneering scientific methods of domestic cookery ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book
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surface form:
Boston Cooking-School Cook Book
Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cook Book ⓘ |
| occupation |
cookbook author
ⓘ
cooking teacher ⓘ domestic science educator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
|
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 J. Lincoln Description of subject: Mary J. Lincoln was a pioneering American cookbook author and one of the first professional cooking instructors, best known for helping to establish scientific, standardized methods of domestic cookery in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln
this entity surface form:
Mrs. D. A. Lincoln