Mary McKenna Donovan
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Mary McKenna Donovan was the wife of American lawyer and diplomat James B. Donovan, noted for her role as his partner and supporter during his prominent Cold War legal and diplomatic work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary McKenna Donovan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12894131 — 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 McKenna Donovan Context triple: [James B. Donovan, spouse, Mary McKenna Donovan]
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A.
Bridget Donovan
Bridget Donovan is a central character in the television drama series "Ray Donovan," known as Ray's intelligent yet troubled daughter who struggles with the chaos of her family's criminal entanglements.
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B.
Mary Cleary
Mary Cleary was the wife of Commodore John Barry, an early U.S. naval officer often called the "Father of the American Navy."
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C.
Mary Burke
Mary Burke is a film producer known for her work on independent and critically acclaimed British films.
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D.
Sally McKenna
Sally McKenna is a troubled, drug-addicted ghost who haunts the Hotel Cortez in the television series "American Horror Story: Hotel."
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E.
Marianne McKenna
Marianne McKenna is a prominent Canadian architect and founding partner of KPMB Architects, known for her influential work in cultural, educational, and civic architecture.
- 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 McKenna Donovan Target entity description: Mary McKenna Donovan was the wife of American lawyer and diplomat James B. Donovan, noted for her role as his partner and supporter during his prominent Cold War legal and diplomatic work.
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A.
Bridget Donovan
Bridget Donovan is a central character in the television drama series "Ray Donovan," known as Ray's intelligent yet troubled daughter who struggles with the chaos of her family's criminal entanglements.
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B.
Mary Cleary
Mary Cleary was the wife of Commodore John Barry, an early U.S. naval officer often called the "Father of the American Navy."
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C.
Mary Burke
Mary Burke is a film producer known for her work on independent and critically acclaimed British films.
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D.
Sally McKenna
Sally McKenna is a troubled, drug-addicted ghost who haunts the Hotel Cortez in the television series "American Horror Story: Hotel."
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E.
Marianne McKenna
Marianne McKenna is a prominent Canadian architect and founding partner of KPMB Architects, known for her influential work in cultural, educational, and civic architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| activeDuring | Cold War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| hasRole |
diplomat’s spouse
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lawyer’s spouse ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| marriedTo | James B. Donovan ⓘ |
| name | Mary McKenna Donovan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role as partner and supporter during Cold War negotiations involving James B. Donovan
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supporting the legal and diplomatic work of James B. Donovan ⓘ |
| residenceCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | James B. Donovan ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation |
American diplomat
ⓘ
American lawyer ⓘ |
| supportedWorkType |
Cold War diplomatic negotiations
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Cold War legal work ⓘ |
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 McKenna Donovan Description of subject: Mary McKenna Donovan was the wife of American lawyer and diplomat James B. Donovan, noted for her role as his partner and supporter during his prominent Cold War legal and diplomatic work.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.