Ann Hull Herndon
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Ann Hull Herndon was the wife of 19th-century American naval officer and pioneering oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ann Hull Herndon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10237946 — 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: Ann Hull Herndon Context triple: [Matthew Fontaine Maury, spouse, Ann Hull Herndon]
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A.
Ellen Lewis Herndon
Ellen Lewis Herndon was the wife of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur and served as First Lady in a social and symbolic capacity despite dying before he took office.
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B.
Mary Maxcy Herndon
Mary Maxcy Herndon was the wife of American lawyer and Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon.
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C.
Nellie W. Carter
Nellie W. Carter was the mother of American actor and entertainer Mickey Rooney.
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D.
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks was the wife of U.S. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and an American political hostess active in 19th-century public life.
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E.
Irma P. Hall
Irma P. Hall is an American actress best known for her warm, commanding portrayals of matriarchal figures in films such as "Soul Food" and "The Ladykillers."
- 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: Ann Hull Herndon Target entity description: Ann Hull Herndon was the wife of 19th-century American naval officer and pioneering oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury.
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A.
Ellen Lewis Herndon
Ellen Lewis Herndon was the wife of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur and served as First Lady in a social and symbolic capacity despite dying before he took office.
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B.
Mary Maxcy Herndon
Mary Maxcy Herndon was the wife of American lawyer and Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon.
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C.
Nellie W. Carter
Nellie W. Carter was the mother of American actor and entertainer Mickey Rooney.
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D.
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks was the wife of U.S. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and an American political hostess active in 19th-century public life.
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E.
Irma P. Hall
Irma P. Hall is an American actress best known for her warm, commanding portrayals of matriarchal figures in films such as "Soul Food" and "The Ladykillers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Matthew Fontaine Maury ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Matthew Fontaine Maury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 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: Ann Hull Herndon Description of subject: Ann Hull Herndon was the wife of 19th-century American naval officer and pioneering oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.