Mary Augusta Walzl
E304943
Mary Augusta Walzl was the first wife of computer pioneer John W. Mauchly, with whom she shared much of his early academic and professional life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Augusta Walzl canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2532880 — 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 Augusta Walzl Context triple: [John W. Mauchly, spouse, Mary Augusta Walzl]
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A.
Mary Theresa Gallwey
Mary Theresa Gallwey was the mother of renowned British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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B.
Maria Louisa Kissam
Maria Louisa Kissam was a 19th-century American socialite best known as the wife of railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt and the mother of Frederick William Vanderbilt.
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C.
Mary Ann Bertles
Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
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D.
Sophia Matilda Arnold
Sophia Matilda Arnold was a daughter of American Revolutionary War figure Peggy Shippen and her husband, the infamous turncoat general Benedict Arnold.
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E.
Mary Theresa Mehegan Hill
Mary Theresa Mehegan Hill was the wife of American railroad magnate James J. Hill and the matriarch of the prominent Hill family in St. Paul, Minnesota.
- 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 Augusta Walzl Target entity description: Mary Augusta Walzl was the first wife of computer pioneer John W. Mauchly, with whom she shared much of his early academic and professional life.
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A.
Mary Theresa Gallwey
Mary Theresa Gallwey was the mother of renowned British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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B.
Maria Louisa Kissam
Maria Louisa Kissam was a 19th-century American socialite best known as the wife of railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt and the mother of Frederick William Vanderbilt.
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C.
Mary Ann Bertles
Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
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D.
Sophia Matilda Arnold
Sophia Matilda Arnold was a daughter of American Revolutionary War figure Peggy Shippen and her husband, the infamous turncoat general Benedict Arnold.
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E.
Mary Theresa Mehegan Hill
Mary Theresa Mehegan Hill was the wife of American railroad magnate James J. Hill and the matriarch of the prominent Hill family in St. Paul, Minnesota.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of computer pioneer John W. Mauchly ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | first wife of John W. Mauchly ⓘ |
| sharedEarlyAcademicLifeWith | John W. Mauchly ⓘ |
| sharedEarlyProfessionalLifeWith | John W. Mauchly ⓘ |
| sharesLifeAspectWith | John W. Mauchly ⓘ |
| spouse |
John W. Mauchly
ⓘ
John W. Mauchly ⓘ
surface form:
John William Mauchly
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| spouseOccupation | computer pioneer ⓘ |
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 Augusta Walzl Description of subject: Mary Augusta Walzl was the first wife of computer pioneer John W. Mauchly, with whom she shared much of his early academic and professional life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.