Mary Tabb Bolling
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Mary Tabb Bolling was a 19th-century American woman of the Virginia gentry, best known as the wife of Confederate cavalry general and planter William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, the second son of Robert E. Lee.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Tabb Bolling canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5077144 — 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 Tabb Bolling Context triple: [William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, spouse, Mary Tabb Bolling]
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A.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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B.
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop, better known as Jane Stanford, was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University alongside her husband Leland Stanford.
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C.
Almira Russell Hancock
Almira Russell Hancock was the wife of Union General Winfield Scott Hancock and an American author known for her memoirs about her husband's military career and their life together.
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D.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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E.
Julia Agnes Washington Bond
Julia Agnes Washington Bond was the mother of civil rights leader Julian Bond and a significant figure in his family’s African American intellectual and activist heritage.
- 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 Tabb Bolling Target entity description: Mary Tabb Bolling was a 19th-century American woman of the Virginia gentry, best known as the wife of Confederate cavalry general and planter William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, the second son of Robert E. Lee.
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A.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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B.
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop, better known as Jane Stanford, was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University alongside her husband Leland Stanford.
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C.
Almira Russell Hancock
Almira Russell Hancock was the wife of Union General Winfield Scott Hancock and an American author known for her memoirs about her husband's military career and their life together.
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D.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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E.
Julia Agnes Washington Bond
Julia Agnes Washington Bond was the mother of civil rights leader Julian Bond and a significant figure in his family’s African American intellectual and activist heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
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human ⓘ member of the Virginia gentry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Confederate States of America
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedDuring | 19th century ⓘ |
| livedIn | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Virginia gentry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the Lee family of Virginia
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being the wife of Confederate cavalry general William Henry Fitzhugh Lee ⓘ |
| occupation | planter’s wife ⓘ |
| partOf | American Civil War–era Southern society ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Robert E. Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | Southern planter aristocracy ⓘ |
| spouse | William Henry Fitzhugh Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
Confederate cavalry general
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planter ⓘ |
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 Tabb Bolling Description of subject: Mary Tabb Bolling was a 19th-century American woman of the Virginia gentry, best known as the wife of Confederate cavalry general and planter William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, the second son of Robert E. Lee.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.