Marguerite Byrd
E231605
Marguerite Byrd is best known as the first wife of singer, actor, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marguerite Byrd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1872474 — 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: Marguerite Byrd Context triple: [Harry Belafonte, spouse, Marguerite Byrd]
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A.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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B.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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C.
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks was the wife of U.S. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and an American political hostess active in 19th-century public life.
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D.
Margaret Ann Dixon
Margaret Ann Dixon is best known as the wife of acclaimed Canadian film director and producer Norman Jewison.
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E.
Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson was the mother of British Army officer General James Wolfe, famed for his victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War.
- 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: Marguerite Byrd Target entity description: Marguerite Byrd is best known as the first wife of singer, actor, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
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A.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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B.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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C.
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks was the wife of U.S. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and an American political hostess active in 19th-century public life.
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D.
Margaret Ann Dixon
Margaret Ann Dixon is best known as the wife of acclaimed Canadian film director and producer Norman Jewison.
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E.
Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson was the mother of British Army officer General James Wolfe, famed for his victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| spouse | Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| spouseName | Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
actor
ⓘ
civil rights activist ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of Harry Belafonte ⓘ |
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: Marguerite Byrd Description of subject: Marguerite Byrd is best known as the first wife of singer, actor, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.