Margaret Mansfield
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Margaret Mansfield was the first wife of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold, with whom she had several children before her death in the early 1770s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margaret Mansfield canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T439987 — 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: Margaret Mansfield Context triple: [Benedict Arnold, spouse, Margaret Mansfield]
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A.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
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B.
Gwen Raverat
Gwen Raverat was a pioneering British wood engraver and illustrator, and a granddaughter of Charles Darwin, known for her influential role in the revival of wood engraving in the early 20th century.
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C.
Maud Ray Kent
Maud Ray Kent was a notable figure significant enough in her field or community to have the MAUD Committee named in her honor.
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D.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a German-born writer and pioneering advocate for international ocean governance and the law of the sea.
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E.
Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
- 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: Margaret Mansfield Target entity description: Margaret Mansfield was the first wife of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold, with whom she had several children before her death in the early 1770s.
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A.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
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B.
Gwen Raverat
Gwen Raverat was a pioneering British wood engraver and illustrator, and a granddaughter of Charles Darwin, known for her influential role in the revival of wood engraving in the early 20th century.
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C.
Maud Ray Kent
Maud Ray Kent was a notable figure significant enough in her field or community to have the MAUD Committee named in her honor.
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D.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a German-born writer and pioneering advocate for international ocean governance and the law of the sea.
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E.
Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeDuring | American colonial period ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
surface form:
American Revolutionary War (through Benedict Arnold)
|
| child |
Benedict Arnold
ⓘ
surface form:
Benedict Arnold Jr.
Henry Arnold ⓘ Richard Arnold ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | British America ⓘ |
| deathDate | early 1770s ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
New Haven, Connecticut
ⓘ
surface form:
New Haven, Connecticut Colony
|
| ethnicGroup | English colonists in North America ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChildWith | Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
| knownRelative |
Benedict Arnold
ⓘ
surface form:
Benedict Arnold Jr.
Henry Arnold ⓘ Richard Arnold ⓘ |
| lifeEvent | marriage to Benedict Arnold before the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| marriedTo |
Benedict Arnold III
ⓘ
surface form:
Benedict Arnold
|
| name | Margaret Mansfield self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| residence |
New Haven Colony
ⓘ
surface form:
New Haven, Connecticut Colony
|
| spouse |
Benedict Arnold
ⓘ
Margaret Mansfield self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
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: Margaret Mansfield Description of subject: Margaret Mansfield was the first wife of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold, with whom she had several children before her death in the early 1770s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Benedict Arnold