Mae Capone
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Mae Capone was the wife of notorious American gangster Al Capone and a relatively private figure who largely stayed out of the public eye despite her husband's fame and infamy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mae Capone canonical | 8 |
| Capone | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T493287 — 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: Mae Capone Context triple: [Al Capone, spouse, Mae Capone]
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A.
Al Capone
Al Capone was a notorious American gangster and crime boss of the Prohibition era, best known for leading the Chicago Outfit and becoming an enduring symbol of organized crime in the United States.
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B.
Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano was a notorious Italian-American mobster who became a founding father of modern organized crime in the United States and a key architect of the national crime syndicate.
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C.
Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky was a major American organized crime figure and financial mastermind who helped build the National Crime Syndicate and modernize the mob’s gambling operations.
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D.
Frank Costello
Frank Costello was a powerful Italian-American mob boss and political fixer who led the Luciano crime family and became known as the "Prime Minister of the Underworld" in mid-20th-century New York.
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E.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a notorious American mobster and key architect of organized crime’s expansion into Las Vegas, becoming one of the most infamous figures of the early 20th-century underworld.
- 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: Mae Capone Target entity description: Mae Capone was the wife of notorious American gangster Al Capone and a relatively private figure who largely stayed out of the public eye despite her husband's fame and infamy.
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A.
Al Capone
Al Capone was a notorious American gangster and crime boss of the Prohibition era, best known for leading the Chicago Outfit and becoming an enduring symbol of organized crime in the United States.
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B.
Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano was a notorious Italian-American mobster who became a founding father of modern organized crime in the United States and a key architect of the national crime syndicate.
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C.
Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky was a major American organized crime figure and financial mastermind who helped build the National Crime Syndicate and modernize the mob’s gambling operations.
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D.
Frank Costello
Frank Costello was a powerful Italian-American mob boss and political fixer who led the Luciano crime family and became known as the "Prime Minister of the Underworld" in mid-20th-century New York.
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E.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a notorious American mobster and key architect of organized crime’s expansion into Las Vegas, becoming one of the most infamous figures of the early 20th-century underworld.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Chicago Outfit ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary Josephine Coughlin ⓘ |
| child | Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Coughlin ⓘ |
| givenName |
Mary
ⓘ
Mary Josephine ⓘ |
| keptLowPublicProfile | true ⓘ |
| knownFor | maintaining privacy despite her husband's notoriety ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedDuring | Prohibition era in the United States ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Al Capone ⓘ |
| name | Mae Capone self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Al Capone ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
City of Chicago ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
Miami ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Al Capone ⓘ |
| spouseName |
Al Capone
ⓘ
surface form:
Alphonse Gabriel Capone
|
| spouseNationality | American ⓘ |
| spouseOf | notorious American gangster ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation | gangster ⓘ |
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: Mae Capone Description of subject: Mae Capone was the wife of notorious American gangster Al Capone and a relatively private figure who largely stayed out of the public eye despite her husband's fame and infamy.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Capone
this entity surface form:
Capone