Mary Desha
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Mary Desha was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the four co-founders of the patriotic lineage organization Daughters of the American Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Desha canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7997089 — 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 Desha Context triple: [Daughters of the American Revolution, foundedBy, Mary Desha]
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A.
Katherine
Katherine is a regional town in Australia's Northern Territory, known as a key service and transport hub near Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) National Park.
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B.
Katherine
Katherine is one of the witty noblewomen in William Shakespeare’s comedy "Love’s Labour’s Lost," known for her sharp dialogue and role in the play’s romantic entanglements.
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C.
Elizabeth Feake
Elizabeth Feake was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the wife of military officer and colonial leader John Underhill.
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D.
Mary Bland
Mary Bland was a member of the prominent Virginia Bland family and the mother of Revolutionary-era planter and politician Henry Lee II.
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E.
Mary de Rachewiltz
Mary de Rachewiltz is an American-born poet, translator, and scholar best known as the daughter and literary executor of Ezra Pound, as well as for her work preserving and promoting his legacy.
- 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 Desha Target entity description: Mary Desha was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the four co-founders of the patriotic lineage organization Daughters of the American Revolution.
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A.
Katherine
Katherine is one of the witty noblewomen in William Shakespeare’s comedy "Love’s Labour’s Lost," known for her sharp dialogue and role in the play’s romantic entanglements.
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B.
Katherine
Katherine is a regional town in Australia's Northern Territory, known as a key service and transport hub near Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) National Park.
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C.
Elizabeth Feake
Elizabeth Feake was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the wife of military officer and colonial leader John Underhill.
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D.
Mary Bland
Mary Bland was a member of the prominent Virginia Bland family and the mother of Revolutionary-era planter and politician Henry Lee II.
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E.
Mary de Rachewiltz
Mary de Rachewiltz is an American-born poet, translator, and scholar best known as the daughter and literary executor of Ezra Pound, as well as for her work preserving and promoting his legacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civic leader
ⓘ
co-founder of organization ⓘ educator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| buriedAt | Lexington Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Daughters of the American Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderWith |
Ellen Hardin Walworth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eugenia Scholay Van Rensselaer NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Smith Lockwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1850-03-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1911-01-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Desha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civic activism
ⓘ
education ⓘ |
| foundedInRole | organizer of Daughters of the American Revolution ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | American Revolutionary War ancestry ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| knownFor |
lineage society leadership
ⓘ
patriotic service ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Daughters of the American Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | patriotic lineage society movement ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the four co-founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution ⓘ |
| notableWork | co-founding the Daughters of the American Revolution ⓘ |
| occupation |
civic leader
ⓘ
educator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lexington, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
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surface form:
Protestantism
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| residence | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workedAs |
government clerk
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schoolteacher ⓘ |
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 Desha Description of subject: Mary Desha was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the four co-founders of the patriotic lineage organization Daughters of the American Revolution.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Daughters of the American Revolution