John Alden Shoudy’s wife Mary Ellen Shoudy
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Mary Ellen Shoudy was the wife of pioneer John Alden Shoudy and the namesake of the city of Ellensburg, Washington.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Alden Shoudy’s wife Mary Ellen Shoudy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13124573 — 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: John Alden Shoudy’s wife Mary Ellen Shoudy Context triple: [Ellensburg, namedAfter, John Alden Shoudy’s wife Mary Ellen Shoudy]
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A.
Mary Ricketts
Mary Ricketts was a British noblewoman best known as the wife of William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, a distinguished Royal Navy officer and peer.
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B.
Martha Joyce Sands
Martha Joyce Sands is the mother of British archaeologist Howard Carter, famed for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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C.
Marian Shields Robinson
Marian Shields Robinson is the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama and grandmother of Malia and Sasha Obama, known for living in the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency to help care for her granddaughters.
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D.
Ellen Harding Casey
Ellen Harding Casey was the wife of former Pennsylvania governor Robert P. Casey and served as the state's First Lady, known for her involvement in public and charitable activities.
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E.
Mary Franklin
Mary Franklin was one of the daughters of Josiah and Abiah Franklin, making her a sister of American founding father Benjamin Franklin.
- 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: John Alden Shoudy’s wife Mary Ellen Shoudy Target entity description: Mary Ellen Shoudy was the wife of pioneer John Alden Shoudy and the namesake of the city of Ellensburg, Washington.
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A.
Mary Ricketts
Mary Ricketts was a British noblewoman best known as the wife of William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, a distinguished Royal Navy officer and peer.
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B.
Martha Joyce Sands
Martha Joyce Sands is the mother of British archaeologist Howard Carter, famed for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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C.
Marian Shields Robinson
Marian Shields Robinson is the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama and grandmother of Malia and Sasha Obama, known for living in the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency to help care for her granddaughters.
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D.
Ellen Harding Casey
Ellen Harding Casey was the wife of former Pennsylvania governor Robert P. Casey and served as the state's First Lady, known for her involvement in public and charitable activities.
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E.
Mary Franklin
Mary Franklin was one of the daughters of Josiah and Abiah Franklin, making her a sister of American founding father Benjamin Franklin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedIn | Washington ⓘ |
| name | Mary Ellen Shoudy ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Mary Ellen Shoudy
ⓘ
Mary Ellen Shoudy ⓘ |
| namesakeOf |
Ellensburg
ⓘ
Ellensburg, Washington ⓘ
linked to:
Ellensburg
|
| notableFor |
being the namesake of Ellensburg, Washington
ⓘ
marriage to pioneer John Alden Shoudy ⓘ |
| occupation | pioneer ⓘ |
| residence |
Ellensburg, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Ellensburg
|
| spouse |
John Alden Shoudy
ⓘ
Mary Ellen Shoudy ⓘ |
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: John Alden Shoudy’s wife Mary Ellen Shoudy Description of subject: Mary Ellen Shoudy was the wife of pioneer John Alden Shoudy and the namesake of the city of Ellensburg, Washington.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.