Mary Heider
E1035706
Mary Heider is the namesake benefactor of Creighton University's Heider College of Business, recognized for her significant philanthropic support.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Heider canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12853797 — 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 Heider Context triple: [Heider College of Business, namedAfter, Mary Heider]
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A.
Mary Haas
Mary Haas was an influential American linguist renowned for her work on Native American languages and for training a generation of field linguists in the Boasian tradition.
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B.
June Deyer
June Deyer was the wife of American actor and film producer Brad Dexter.
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C.
Cynthia Scheider
Cynthia Scheider is an American film editor known for her work on movies such as "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" and "Kramer vs. Kramer."
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D.
Tiffy Gerhardt
Tiffy Gerhardt is a central character in the television drama series "The Unit," known for her role as the outspoken and resilient wife of one of the elite soldiers.
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E.
Diane Heidkrüger
Diane Heidkrüger is the birth name of Diane Kruger, a German-born actress and former fashion model known for her roles in films such as "Troy," "Inglourious Basterds," and "National Treasure."
- 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 Heider Target entity description: Mary Heider is the namesake benefactor of Creighton University's Heider College of Business, recognized for her significant philanthropic support.
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A.
Mary Haas
Mary Haas was an influential American linguist renowned for her work on Native American languages and for training a generation of field linguists in the Boasian tradition.
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B.
June Deyer
June Deyer was the wife of American actor and film producer Brad Dexter.
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C.
Cynthia Scheider
Cynthia Scheider is an American film editor known for her work on movies such as "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" and "Kramer vs. Kramer."
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D.
Tiffy Gerhardt
Tiffy Gerhardt is a central character in the television drama series "The Unit," known for her role as the outspoken and resilient wife of one of the elite soldiers.
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E.
Diane Heidkrüger
Diane Heidkrüger is the birth name of Diane Kruger, a German-born actress and former fashion model known for her roles in films such as "Troy," "Inglourious Basterds," and "National Treasure."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business school
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human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Creighton University ⓘ |
| benefactorOf | Heider College of Business ⓘ |
| hasNamesakeBenefactor | Mary Heider ⓘ |
| knownFor |
benefaction to Heider College of Business
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philanthropic support to Creighton University ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mary Heider ⓘ |
| namesakeOf | Heider College of Business ⓘ |
| partOf | Creighton University ⓘ |
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 Heider Description of subject: Mary Heider is the namesake benefactor of Creighton University's Heider College of Business, recognized for her significant philanthropic support.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.