Mary Appleby
E1035998
Mary Appleby is known as the spouse of Richard Butler.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Appleby canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12424518 — 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 Appleby Context triple: [Richard Butler, spouse, Mary Appleby]
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A.
Catherine Aldrich
Catherine Aldrich is an individual associated with the use of something identified by the name Aldrich, though specific public biographical or professional details about her are not widely documented.
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B.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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C.
Elizabeth Ayres
Elizabeth Ayres was the wife of American Revolutionary War officer and pioneering surveyor Rufus Putnam.
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D.
Margaret Guilfoyle
Margaret Guilfoyle was an Australian politician who served as a pioneering female cabinet minister and influential member of the Liberal Party in the late 20th century.
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E.
Margaret Pumphrey
Margaret Pumphrey was the wife of British-born American actor Victor McLaglen, an Academy Award–winning star of early 20th-century cinema.
- 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 Appleby Target entity description: Mary Appleby is known as the spouse of Richard Butler.
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A.
Catherine Aldrich
Catherine Aldrich is an individual associated with the use of something identified by the name Aldrich, though specific public biographical or professional details about her are not widely documented.
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B.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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C.
Elizabeth Ayres
Elizabeth Ayres was the wife of American Revolutionary War officer and pioneering surveyor Rufus Putnam.
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D.
Margaret Guilfoyle
Margaret Guilfoyle was an Australian politician who served as a pioneering female cabinet minister and influential member of the Liberal Party in the late 20th century.
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E.
Margaret Pumphrey
Margaret Pumphrey was the wife of British-born American actor Victor McLaglen, an Academy Award–winning star of early 20th-century cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (3)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| name | Mary Appleby ⓘ |
| spouse | Richard Butler ⓘ |
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 Appleby Description of subject: Mary Appleby is known as the spouse of Richard Butler.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.