Mary Walsingham
E59862
Mary Walsingham was an English gentlewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Walter Mildmay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Walsingham canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T416878 — 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 Walsingham Context triple: [Sir Walter Mildmay, spouse, Mary Walsingham]
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A.
Margery Durant
Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
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B.
Dorothy Fane
Dorothy Fane was an 18th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent statesman in Georgian England.
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C.
Maud of Wales
Maud of Wales was a British princess who became Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII.
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D.
Delia Jarvis Tudor
Delia Jarvis Tudor was the mother of American essayist and diplomat William Tudor and a member of the prominent Tudor family of Boston.
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E.
Crispin Bonham-Carter
Crispin Bonham-Carter is a British actor and theatre director best known for playing Mr. Bingley in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
- 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 Walsingham Target entity description: Mary Walsingham was an English gentlewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Walter Mildmay.
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A.
Margery Durant
Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
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B.
Dorothy Fane
Dorothy Fane was an 18th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent statesman in Georgian England.
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C.
Maud of Wales
Maud of Wales was a British princess who became Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII.
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D.
Delia Jarvis Tudor
Delia Jarvis Tudor was the mother of American essayist and diplomat William Tudor and a member of the prominent Tudor family of Boston.
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E.
Crispin Bonham-Carter
Crispin Bonham-Carter is a British actor and theatre director best known for playing Mr. Bingley in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century English person
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English gentlewoman ⓘ English statesman ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of England
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Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Sir Walter Mildmay ⓘ |
| occupation | gentlewoman ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chancellor of the Exchequer of England ⓘ |
| residence | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClass | gentry ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Walsingham
self-linksurface differs
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Sir Walter Mildmay ⓘ |
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 Walsingham Description of subject: Mary Walsingham was an English gentlewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Walter Mildmay.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sir Walter Mildmay