Mary Whitaker
E1041236
Mary Whitaker is known as the first wife of American singer, songwriter, and politician Sonny Bono.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Whitaker canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13456976 — 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 Whitaker Context triple: [Sonny Bono, spouse, Mary Whitaker]
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A.
Geneva Dowd
Geneva Dowd was the wife of American singer and talk show host Mike Douglas.
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B.
Virginia Weidler
Virginia Weidler was an American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best remembered for her witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Philadelphia Story."
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C.
Mary Beth Johnson
Mary Beth Johnson is known as the wife of American Western film actor Charles Starrett.
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D.
Gail Dwyer
Gail Dwyer is a central comedic character in the 1995 romantic comedy film "Nine Months," portrayed as the pregnant partner whose unexpected news upends her boyfriend's carefree life.
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E.
Susan Sullivan
Susan Sullivan is an American actress best known for her television roles in series such as "Falcon Crest," "Dharma & Greg," and "Castle."
- 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 Whitaker Target entity description: Mary Whitaker is known as the first wife of American singer, songwriter, and politician Sonny Bono.
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A.
Geneva Dowd
Geneva Dowd was the wife of American singer and talk show host Mike Douglas.
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B.
Virginia Weidler
Virginia Weidler was an American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best remembered for her witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Philadelphia Story."
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C.
Mary Beth Johnson
Mary Beth Johnson is known as the wife of American Western film actor Charles Starrett.
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D.
Gail Dwyer
Gail Dwyer is a central comedic character in the 1995 romantic comedy film "Nine Months," portrayed as the pregnant partner whose unexpected news upends her boyfriend's carefree life.
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E.
Susan Sullivan
Susan Sullivan is an American actress best known for her television roles in series such as "Falcon Crest," "Dharma & Greg," and "Castle."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Sonny Bono ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Sonny Bono ⓘ |
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 Whitaker Description of subject: Mary Whitaker is known as the first wife of American singer, songwriter, and politician Sonny Bono.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.