Mary Powell
E224116
Mary Powell was the first wife of English poet John Milton, whose brief and troubled marriage to him influenced his later writings on divorce and marriage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Powell canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1056522 — 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 Powell Context triple: [John Milton, spouse, Mary Powell]
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A.
Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson was an American socialite best known for her controversial early-19th-century marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger brother, Jérôme.
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B.
Martha McMillan Roberts
Martha McMillan Roberts was a Farm Security Administration photographer known for documenting American life during the Great Depression era.
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C.
Jane Wills Pitts
Jane Wills Pitts was the mother of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white suffragist and second wife of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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D.
Mary Power
Mary Power is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in fields such as academia, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Honora Burke
Honora Burke was an Irish noblewoman of the late 17th century, noted for her connections to prominent Jacobite circles through her marriage into the exiled Stuart aristocracy.
- 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 Powell Target entity description: Mary Powell was the first wife of English poet John Milton, whose brief and troubled marriage to him influenced his later writings on divorce and marriage.
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A.
Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson was an American socialite best known for her controversial early-19th-century marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger brother, Jérôme.
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B.
Martha McMillan Roberts
Martha McMillan Roberts was a Farm Security Administration photographer known for documenting American life during the Great Depression era.
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C.
Jane Wills Pitts
Jane Wills Pitts was the mother of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white suffragist and second wife of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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D.
Mary Power
Mary Power is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in fields such as academia, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Honora Burke
Honora Burke was an Irish noblewoman of the late 17th century, noted for her connections to prominent Jacobite circles through her marriage into the exiled Stuart aristocracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| familyName | Powell ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| influenced |
John Milton’s views on marriage
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John Milton’s writings on divorce ⓘ |
| marriageCharacterization | troubled ⓘ |
| marriageDuration | brief ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of John Milton ⓘ |
| occupation | housewife ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| spouse | John Milton ⓘ |
| spouseName | John Milton ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
poet
ⓘ
political thinker ⓘ |
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 Powell Description of subject: Mary Powell was the first wife of English poet John Milton, whose brief and troubled marriage to him influenced his later writings on divorce and marriage.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Milton