Mary Cottenham White
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Mary Cottenham White was the wife of Irish painter and illustrator Jack Butler Yeats, known primarily through her association with his life and work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Cottenham White canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11025161 — 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 Cottenham White Context triple: [Jack Butler Yeats, spouse, Mary Cottenham White]
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A.
Mabel Wellington White
Mabel Wellington White was the wife of American statesman Henry L. Stimson and a prominent figure in early 20th-century U.S. political and social circles.
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B.
Frances Barrett White
Frances Barrett White was the wife of English surgeon and anatomist Charles White, known primarily through her association with his life and work.
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C.
Margaret Whitmore
Margaret Whitmore is best known as the wife of American physician-turned-thriller novelist Robin Cook.
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D.
Mary Amanda Outwater White
Mary Amanda Outwater White was the first wife of educator and diplomat Andrew Dickson White and served as an important partner in his early academic and public life.
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E.
Helen Magill White
Helen Magill White was an American educator and classicist notable for being the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. degree.
- 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 Cottenham White Target entity description: Mary Cottenham White was the wife of Irish painter and illustrator Jack Butler Yeats, known primarily through her association with his life and work.
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A.
Mabel Wellington White
Mabel Wellington White was the wife of American statesman Henry L. Stimson and a prominent figure in early 20th-century U.S. political and social circles.
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B.
Frances Barrett White
Frances Barrett White was the wife of English surgeon and anatomist Charles White, known primarily through her association with his life and work.
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C.
Margaret Whitmore
Margaret Whitmore is best known as the wife of American physician-turned-thriller novelist Robin Cook.
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D.
Mary Amanda Outwater White
Mary Amanda Outwater White was the first wife of educator and diplomat Andrew Dickson White and served as an important partner in his early academic and public life.
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E.
Helen Magill White
Helen Magill White was an American educator and classicist notable for being the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. degree.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| knownFor | association with the life and work of Jack Butler Yeats ⓘ |
| name | Mary Cottenham White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Jack Butler Yeats ⓘ |
| residence |
England
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Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Jack Butler Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseName | Jack Butler Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
illustrator
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painter ⓘ |
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 Cottenham White Description of subject: Mary Cottenham White was the wife of Irish painter and illustrator Jack Butler Yeats, known primarily through her association with his life and work.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.