Mary Leech
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Mary Leech was the wife 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 Leech canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2426235 — 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 Leech Context triple: [Richard Dobbs Spaight, spouse, Mary Leech]
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A.
Lucinda Southworth
Lucinda Southworth is an American research scientist and philanthropist best known as the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.
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B.
Lydia Reed
Lydia Reed is an American former child actress best known for her film and television roles in the 1950s.
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C.
Isabella Brant
Isabella Brant was the first wife and frequent muse of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, known from several of his celebrated portraits.
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D.
Mary Ann Booth
Mary Ann Booth was the daughter of Mary Ann Holmes Booth and a member of the prominent 19th-century Booth family connected to the American theatrical world.
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E.
Mary Corinna Putnam
Mary Corinna Putnam was a pioneering American physician and medical researcher, recognized as one of the first women to earn a medical degree in the United States and a leading advocate for women in medicine.
- 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 Leech Target entity description: Mary Leech was the wife of Richard Dobbs Spaight, a prominent early American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution from North Carolina.
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A.
Lucinda Southworth
Lucinda Southworth is an American research scientist and philanthropist best known as the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.
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B.
Lydia Reed
Lydia Reed is an American former child actress best known for her film and television roles in the 1950s.
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C.
Isabella Brant
Isabella Brant was the first wife and frequent muse of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, known from several of his celebrated portraits.
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D.
Mary Ann Booth
Mary Ann Booth was the daughter of Mary Ann Holmes Booth and a member of the prominent 19th-century Booth family connected to the American theatrical world.
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E.
Mary Corinna Putnam
Mary Corinna Putnam was a pioneering American physician and medical researcher, recognized as one of the first women to earn a medical degree in the United States and a leading advocate for women in medicine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Richard Dobbs Spaight ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | North Carolina ⓘ |
| residence | North Carolina ⓘ |
| spouse | Richard Dobbs Spaight ⓘ |
| spouseFamilyName | Spaight ⓘ |
| spouseGivenName | Richard ⓘ |
| spouseMiddleName | Dobbs ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | statesman ⓘ |
| spouseOfSignerOf | United States Constitution ⓘ |
| spousePoliticalRole | Governor of 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 Leech Description of subject: Mary Leech was the wife of Richard Dobbs Spaight, a prominent early American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution from North Carolina.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.