Mary Stilwell
E30194
Mary Stilwell was the first wife of inventor Thomas Alva Edison, whom he married in 1871 and with whom he had three children before her early death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Stilwell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T88886 — 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 Stilwell Context triple: [Thomas Alva Edison, spouse, Mary Stilwell]
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A.
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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B.
Diana Churchill
Diana Churchill was the eldest daughter of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill, known for her work as an actress and her involvement in public life during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Katherine Oppenheimer
Katherine Oppenheimer was an American biologist and former Communist Party member best known as the politically controversial wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project era.
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D.
Margaret Craig McNamara
Margaret Craig McNamara was an American educator and literacy advocate best known as the founder of the nonprofit organization Reading Is Fundamental (RIF).
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E.
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress known for her folk-inspired pop music and roles in musical theatre, including the hit musical "Blood Brothers."
- 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 Stilwell Target entity description: Mary Stilwell was the first wife of inventor Thomas Alva Edison, whom he married in 1871 and with whom he had three children before her early death.
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A.
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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B.
Diana Churchill
Diana Churchill was the eldest daughter of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill, known for her work as an actress and her involvement in public life during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Katherine Oppenheimer
Katherine Oppenheimer was an American biologist and former Communist Party member best known as the politically controversial wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project era.
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D.
Margaret Craig McNamara
Margaret Craig McNamara was an American educator and literacy advocate best known as the founder of the nonprofit organization Reading Is Fundamental (RIF).
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E.
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress known for her folk-inspired pop music and roles in musical theatre, including the hit musical "Blood Brothers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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 Stilwell Description of subject: Mary Stilwell was the first wife of inventor Thomas Alva Edison, whom he married in 1871 and with whom he had three children before her early death.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thomas Alva Edison