Mary Jane Kingsbury
E373359
Mary Jane Kingsbury was the wife of American Civil War Confederate general and later Kentucky governor Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Jane Kingsbury canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1675974 — 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 Jane Kingsbury Context triple: [Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr., spouse, Mary Jane Kingsbury]
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A.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
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C.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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D.
Minerva Anderson
Minerva Anderson was the mother of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
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E.
Mary Hortense Kimball
Mary Hortense Kimball was the wife of American businessman and retail magnate James Cash Penney, founder of the J. C. Penney department store chain.
- 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 Jane Kingsbury Target entity description: Mary Jane Kingsbury was the wife of American Civil War Confederate general and later Kentucky governor Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
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A.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
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C.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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D.
Minerva Anderson
Minerva Anderson was the mother of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
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E.
Mary Hortense Kimball
Mary Hortense Kimball was the wife of American businessman and retail magnate James Cash Penney, founder of the J. C. Penney department store chain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. ⓘ |
| spouse | Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. ⓘ |
| spouseAllegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| spouseMilitaryConflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
Confederate States Army general
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Governor of Kentucky ⓘ |
| spousePositionHeld | 30th Governor of Kentucky ⓘ |
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 Jane Kingsbury Description of subject: Mary Jane Kingsbury was the wife of American Civil War Confederate general and later Kentucky governor Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.