Mary Cecilia Waterbury
E769437
Mary Cecilia Waterbury was the wife of Homer Stillé Cummings, a prominent American lawyer and U.S. Attorney General under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Cecilia Waterbury canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8940039 — 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 Cecilia Waterbury Context triple: [Homer Stillé Cummings, spouse, Mary Cecilia Waterbury]
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A.
Annie M. Boughton
Annie M. Boughton was the wife of American politician and first U.S. Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield.
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B.
Mary Apthorp
Mary Apthorp was the wife of influential American theologian and Congregational minister Horace Bushnell in the 19th century.
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C.
Lydia Hurlbut
Lydia Hurlbut is an American entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of the Hurlbut Academy, an educational platform for filmmakers that she runs with her husband, cinematographer Shane Hurlbut.
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D.
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss was an American philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
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E.
Martha Wheaton Bowers
Martha Wheaton Bowers was the wife of prominent U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft and a member of a politically influential American family.
- 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 Cecilia Waterbury Target entity description: Mary Cecilia Waterbury was the wife of Homer Stillé Cummings, a prominent American lawyer and U.S. Attorney General under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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A.
Annie M. Boughton
Annie M. Boughton was the wife of American politician and first U.S. Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield.
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B.
Mary Apthorp
Mary Apthorp was the wife of influential American theologian and Congregational minister Horace Bushnell in the 19th century.
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C.
Lydia Hurlbut
Lydia Hurlbut is an American entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of the Hurlbut Academy, an educational platform for filmmakers that she runs with her husband, cinematographer Shane Hurlbut.
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D.
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss was an American philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
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E.
Martha Wheaton Bowers
Martha Wheaton Bowers was the wife of prominent U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft and a member of a politically influential American family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Homer Stillé Cummings ⓘ |
| spouse | Homer Stillé Cummings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseCountryOfCitizenship | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseEmployer | United States Department of Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
United States Attorney General
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| spouseWorkedUnder | Franklin D. Roosevelt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Cecilia Waterbury Description of subject: Mary Cecilia Waterbury was the wife of Homer Stillé Cummings, a prominent American lawyer and U.S. Attorney General under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.