Lady May Abel Smith
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Lady May Abel Smith was a British aristocrat and granddaughter of Queen Victoria who was born Princess May of Teck and later became a member of the extended royal family through her marriage to Sir Henry Abel Smith.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lady May Abel Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5250717 — 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: Lady May Abel Smith Context triple: [Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, child, Lady May Abel Smith]
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A.
Mary Young
Mary Young, better known as Mary Pickersgill, was the American flag maker who sewed the large Star-Spangled Banner flag that inspired the United States national anthem.
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B.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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C.
Mary Robbins
Mary Robbins is known as the mother of American actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins.
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D.
Rose Mary Harbison
Rose Mary Harbison is an American violinist and educator known for her performances, teaching, and long association with composer John Harbison.
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E.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
- 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: Lady May Abel Smith Target entity description: Lady May Abel Smith was a British aristocrat and granddaughter of Queen Victoria who was born Princess May of Teck and later became a member of the extended royal family through her marriage to Sir Henry Abel Smith.
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A.
Mary Young
Mary Young, better known as Mary Pickersgill, was the American flag maker who sewed the large Star-Spangled Banner flag that inspired the United States national anthem.
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B.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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C.
Mary Robbins
Mary Robbins is known as the mother of American actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins.
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D.
Rose Mary Harbison
Rose Mary Harbison is an American violinist and educator known for her performances, teaching, and long association with composer John Harbison.
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E.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British aristocrat
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granddaughter of Queen Victoria ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1906-01-23 ⓘ |
| birthName | Princess May of Teck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Claremont House, Esher, Surrey, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore, Windsor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Anne Mary Sibylla Abel Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colonel Richard Francis Abel Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth Alice Abel Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1994-05-29 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Badminton House, Gloucestershire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German-British nobility ⓘ |
| father | Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | May NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather |
Francis, Duke of Teck
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandmother |
Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| greatGrandfather | Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| greatGrandmother | Queen Victoria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Lady ⓘ |
| house |
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (by descent)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of Waldeck and Pyrmont (by descent) NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Windsor (by descent and marriage) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageDate | 1931-10-24 ⓘ |
| marriagePlace | St. Mary’s Church, Balcombe, Sussex, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
British royal family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of Teck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Princess Alice of Albany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Princess of Teck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a granddaughter of a son of Queen Victoria ⓘ |
| occupation | royal courtier ⓘ |
| relative |
King George V
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King George VI NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen Elizabeth II NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Church of England ⓘ |
| residence |
Badminton House, Gloucestershire, England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Windsor, Berkshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lady May Abel Smith
NERFINISHED
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Sir Henry Abel Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseTitle | Governor of Queensland ⓘ |
| title | Lady May Abel Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Lady May Abel Smith Description of subject: Lady May Abel Smith was a British aristocrat and granddaughter of Queen Victoria who was born Princess May of Teck and later became a member of the extended royal family through her marriage to Sir Henry Abel Smith.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.