Matilda McGrain
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Matilda McGrain was the wife of American statesman and jurist Walter Q. Gresham, who served as U.S. Postmaster General, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matilda McGrain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6677860 — 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: Matilda McGrain Context triple: [Walter Q. Gresham, spouse, Matilda McGrain]
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A.
Matilda Shapiro
Matilda Shapiro was the wife of Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright Sholem Asch, a prominent figure in Yiddish literature.
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B.
Mary McGrath
Mary McGrath is a private individual best known for her past marriage to British author Neil Gaiman.
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C.
Hattie Maloney
Hattie Maloney is the brash, wisecracking nightclub singer who serves as the central comic heroine of the musical "Panama Hattie."
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D.
Mollie Malloy
Mollie Malloy is a supporting character in the classic newsroom comedy "The Front Page," often portrayed as a vulnerable woman entangled in the central murder case and exploited by the press.
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E.
Beatrice O’Brien
Beatrice O’Brien was the first wife of Italian inventor and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, with whom she had several children before their marriage was annulled.
- 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: Matilda McGrain Target entity description: Matilda McGrain was the wife of American statesman and jurist Walter Q. Gresham, who served as U.S. Postmaster General, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State in the late 19th century.
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A.
Matilda Shapiro
Matilda Shapiro was the wife of Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright Sholem Asch, a prominent figure in Yiddish literature.
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B.
Mary McGrath
Mary McGrath is a private individual best known for her past marriage to British author Neil Gaiman.
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C.
Hattie Maloney
Hattie Maloney is the brash, wisecracking nightclub singer who serves as the central comic heroine of the musical "Panama Hattie."
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D.
Mollie Malloy
Mollie Malloy is a supporting character in the classic newsroom comedy "The Front Page," often portrayed as a vulnerable woman entangled in the central murder case and exploited by the press.
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E.
Beatrice O’Brien
Beatrice O’Brien was the first wife of Italian inventor and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, with whom she had several children before their marriage was annulled.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
Republican Party ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of American statesman and jurist Walter Q. Gresham ⓘ |
| notableWork |
service in the Cabinet of President Chester A. Arthur
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service in the Cabinet of President Grover Cleveland ⓘ |
| occupation |
jurist
ⓘ
statesman ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Postmaster General
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Secretary of State ⓘ United States Secretary of the Treasury NERFINISHED ⓘ United States federal judge ⓘ |
| spouse |
Matilda McGrain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Walter Q. Gresham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
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: Matilda McGrain Description of subject: Matilda McGrain was the wife of American statesman and jurist Walter Q. Gresham, who served as U.S. Postmaster General, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Walter Q. Gresham