Mary Dobbs
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Mary Dobbs was the mother of Richard Dobbs Spaight, a prominent early American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution from North Carolina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Dobbs canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2426234 — 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 Dobbs Context triple: [Richard Dobbs Spaight, mother, Mary Dobbs]
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A.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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B.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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C.
Elizabeth Carver
Elizabeth Carver was the wife of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
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D.
Elizabeth Carver
Elizabeth Carver is a person whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly identifiable from the given information.
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E.
Miss Agnes Walke
Miss Agnes Walke was the woman who sponsored and ceremonially christened the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Walke (DD-416).
- 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 Dobbs Target entity description: Mary Dobbs was the mother of Richard Dobbs Spaight, a prominent early American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution from North Carolina.
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A.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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B.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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C.
Elizabeth Carver
Elizabeth Carver was the wife of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
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D.
Elizabeth Carver
Elizabeth Carver is a person whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly identifiable from the given information.
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E.
Miss Agnes Walke
Miss Agnes Walke was the woman who sponsored and ceremonially christened the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Walke (DD-416).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mother ⓘ |
| child | Richard Dobbs Spaight ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| familyName | Dobbs ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Dobbs self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Richard Dobbs Spaight ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Richard Dobbs Spaight ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | North Carolina ⓘ |
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 Dobbs Description of subject: Mary Dobbs was the mother of Richard Dobbs Spaight, a prominent early American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution from North Carolina.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Richard Dobbs Spaight