Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur
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Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur was the mother of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur and a prominent influence on his upbringing and early military career.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur canonical | 7 |
| Mrs. Douglas MacArthur | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T92224 — 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 Pinkney Hardy MacArthur Context triple: [Douglas MacArthur, mother, Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur]
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A.
Lou Henry Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover was an American First Lady, geologist, and humanitarian known for her advocacy of women's education and her active public role during Herbert Hoover's presidency.
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B.
Margaret Truman
Margaret Truman was an American singer, author, and the only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman, known for her concert career and popular mystery novels.
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C.
Mamie Eisenhower
Mamie Eisenhower was the First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961, known for her popular personal style and role as the wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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D.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
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E.
Mary Stilwell
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.
- 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 Pinkney Hardy MacArthur Target entity description: Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur was the mother of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur and a prominent influence on his upbringing and early military career.
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A.
Lou Henry Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover was an American First Lady, geologist, and humanitarian known for her advocacy of women's education and her active public role during Herbert Hoover's presidency.
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B.
Margaret Truman
Margaret Truman was an American singer, author, and the only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman, known for her concert career and popular mystery novels.
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C.
Mamie Eisenhower
Mamie Eisenhower was the First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961, known for her popular personal style and role as the wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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D.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
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E.
Mary Stilwell
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary Pinkney Hardy ⓘ |
| child |
Arthur MacArthur III
ⓘ
Douglas MacArthur ⓘ Malcolm MacArthur ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | MacArthur ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| influenced | Douglas MacArthur ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Arthur MacArthur III
ⓘ
Douglas MacArthur ⓘ Malcolm MacArthur ⓘ |
| name | Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
accompanying her husband and son to various military postings
ⓘ
being the mother of General Douglas MacArthur ⓘ |
| notableWork | influence on the upbringing and early military career of Douglas MacArthur ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| relative |
Arthur MacArthur Jr.
ⓘ
Douglas MacArthur ⓘ |
| residence |
Little Rock, Arkansas
ⓘ
Manila ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ West Point, New York ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Arthur MacArthur Jr. ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | United States Army officer ⓘ |
| spouseRank | Lieutenant General ⓘ |
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 Pinkney Hardy MacArthur Description of subject: Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur was the mother of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur and a prominent influence on his upbringing and early military career.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mrs. Douglas MacArthur