Evalyn Walsh McLean
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Evalyn Walsh McLean was an American mining heiress and socialite best known as the flamboyant owner of the famed Hope Diamond in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Evalyn Walsh McLean canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7609499 — 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: Evalyn Walsh McLean Context triple: [Hope Diamond, laterOwner, Evalyn Walsh McLean]
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A.
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop, better known as Jane Stanford, was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University alongside her husband Leland Stanford.
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B.
Helen Louise Herron
Helen Louise Herron, later known as Helen Herron Taft, was the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913 as the wife of President William Howard Taft and an influential advocate for arts and public spaces in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Lucy Ware Webb
Lucy Ware Webb was the First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881 as the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes and was noted for her advocacy of temperance and social reforms.
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D.
Rachel Lucretia Russell
Rachel Lucretia Russell was a daughter of the British liberal politician and freethinker John Russell, Viscount Amberley, and a member of the prominent Russell family.
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E.
Frances Foster Adams
Frances Foster Adams was a member of the prominent Adams family of Massachusetts, descended from the early American presidential Adams lineage.
- 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: Evalyn Walsh McLean Target entity description: Evalyn Walsh McLean was an American mining heiress and socialite best known as the flamboyant owner of the famed Hope Diamond in the early 20th century.
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A.
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop, better known as Jane Stanford, was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University alongside her husband Leland Stanford.
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B.
Helen Louise Herron
Helen Louise Herron, later known as Helen Herron Taft, was the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913 as the wife of President William Howard Taft and an influential advocate for arts and public spaces in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Lucy Ware Webb
Lucy Ware Webb was the First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881 as the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes and was noted for her advocacy of temperance and social reforms.
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D.
Rachel Lucretia Russell
Rachel Lucretia Russell was a daughter of the British liberal politician and freethinker John Russell, Viscount Amberley, and a member of the prominent Russell family.
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E.
Frances Foster Adams
Frances Foster Adams was a member of the prominent Adams family of Massachusetts, descended from the early American presidential Adams lineage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heiress
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hope Diamond curse legend
ⓘ
The Washington Post NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Evalyn Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| child |
Edward Beale McLean Jr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Evelyn "Evie" McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ John Randolph McLean II NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Walsh McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1886-08-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1947-04-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1908-10-12 ⓘ |
| describedAs | flamboyant owner of the Hope Diamond ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Thomas Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Evalyn Walsh McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Evalyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableJewelryCollection | true ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance | frequent subject of early 20th-century American press coverage ⓘ |
| mother | Carrie Bell Reed Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent | purchase of the Hope Diamond in 1911 ⓘ |
| notableFor | ownership of the Hope Diamond ⓘ |
| notableResidence | McLean mansion on Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
newspaper heiress
ⓘ
socialite ⓘ |
| owned |
Hope Diamond
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
McLean Diamond NERFINISHED ⓘ Star of the East diamond NERFINISHED ⓘ Star of the South diamond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Leadville, Colorado, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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| placeOfMarriage | Washington, D.C., United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ
surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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| socialCircle |
Washington, D.C. high society
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White House social circle ⓘ |
| spouse | Edward Beale McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wealthOrigin | mining fortune of Thomas Walsh ⓘ |
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: Evalyn Walsh McLean Description of subject: Evalyn Walsh McLean was an American mining heiress and socialite best known as the flamboyant owner of the famed Hope Diamond in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.