Mary Hortense Kimball
E363341
Mary Hortense Kimball was the wife of American businessman and retail magnate James Cash Penney, founder of the J. C. Penney department store chain.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Hortense Kimball canonical | 2 |
| Caroline Marie Autenrieth Penney | 1 |
| Mary Hortense Kimball Penney | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657740 — 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 Hortense Kimball Context triple: [J. C. Penney, spouse, Mary Hortense Kimball]
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A.
Lucy Ann Shaler
Lucy Ann Shaler was the wife of American naval officer and War of 1812 hero Commodore Thomas Macdonough.
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B.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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C.
Emma Channing
Emma Channing is a central, emotionally fragile and often manipulated character in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for her troubled family relationships and dramatic storylines.
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D.
Lydia Gardner Happer
Lydia Gardner Happer was the wife of U.S. Army General Maxwell D. Taylor, a prominent military leader and diplomat of the mid-20th century.
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E.
Josephine Hull
Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles, including her Oscar-winning performance in "Harvey."
- 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 Hortense Kimball Target entity description: Mary Hortense Kimball was the wife of American businessman and retail magnate James Cash Penney, founder of the J. C. Penney department store chain.
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A.
Lucy Ann Shaler
Lucy Ann Shaler was the wife of American naval officer and War of 1812 hero Commodore Thomas Macdonough.
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B.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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C.
Emma Channing
Emma Channing is a central, emotionally fragile and often manipulated character in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for her troubled family relationships and dramatic storylines.
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D.
Lydia Gardner Happer
Lydia Gardner Happer was the wife of U.S. Army General Maxwell D. Taylor, a prominent military leader and diplomat of the mid-20th century.
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E.
Josephine Hull
Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles, including her Oscar-winning performance in "Harvey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
department store chain
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| founderOf | J. C. Penney ⓘ |
| name | Mary Hortense Kimball self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of James Cash Penney
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founding the J. C. Penney department store chain ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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retail magnate ⓘ |
| spouse | James Cash Penney ⓘ |
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 Hortense Kimball Description of subject: Mary Hortense Kimball was the wife of American businessman and retail magnate James Cash Penney, founder of the J. C. Penney department store chain.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mary Hortense Kimball Penney
this entity surface form:
Caroline Marie Autenrieth Penney