Mary Storer Potter
E29171
Mary Storer Potter was the first wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whom he married in 1831 and who died tragically young.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Storer Potter canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T227827 — 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 Storer Potter Context triple: [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, spouse, Mary Storer Potter]
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A.
Dora Black
Dora Black was a British author, educator, and feminist best known for her radical views on marriage and sexuality and her influential partnership with philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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B.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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D.
Mary Soames
Mary Soames was a British author and public figure best known as the youngest daughter and biographer of Winston and Clementine Churchill.
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E.
Abigail
Abigail is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "my father is joy," historically popular in English-speaking countries.
- 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 Storer Potter Target entity description: Mary Storer Potter was the first wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whom he married in 1831 and who died tragically young.
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A.
Dora Black
Dora Black was a British author, educator, and feminist best known for her radical views on marriage and sexuality and her influential partnership with philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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B.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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D.
Mary Soames
Mary Soames was a British author and public figure best known as the youngest daughter and biographer of Winston and Clementine Churchill.
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E.
Abigail
Abigail is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "my father is joy," historically popular in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American literature
ⓘ
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | marriage to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Potter ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasNoChildrenWith | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⓘ |
| languageOfSocialEnvironment | English ⓘ |
| lifeEvent | died young ⓘ |
| maritalStatusAtDeath | married ⓘ |
| marriageLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1831 ⓘ |
| name | Mary Storer Potter self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Longfellow family ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Mary Storer Potter self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | American ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | poet ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⓘ |
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 Storer Potter Description of subject: Mary Storer Potter was the first wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whom he married in 1831 and who died tragically young.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow