Marion Estelle Edison
E158983
Marion Estelle Edison was the daughter of inventor Thomas Edison and his first wife, Mary Stilwell.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marion Estelle Edison canonical | 8 |
| Marion E. Edison | 1 |
| Marion Edison | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1374775 — 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: Marion Estelle Edison Context triple: [Mary Stilwell, child, Marion Estelle Edison]
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A.
Esme O'Brien Sarnoff
Esme O'Brien Sarnoff was the wife of influential American record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond Jr.
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B.
Edith Emerson
Edith Emerson was a daughter of the American transcendentalist essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, known primarily through her connection to his family and correspondence.
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C.
Elsie Ann Ford
Elsie Ann Ford was an American actress and the mother of actor Robert Downey Jr.
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D.
Lucile Salter Packard
Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
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E.
Frances Allan
Frances Allan was the foster mother of American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who helped raise him in the Allan household in Richmond, Virginia.
- 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: Marion Estelle Edison Target entity description: Marion Estelle Edison was the daughter of inventor Thomas Edison and his first wife, Mary Stilwell.
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A.
Esme O'Brien Sarnoff
Esme O'Brien Sarnoff was the wife of influential American record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond Jr.
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B.
Edith Emerson
Edith Emerson was a daughter of the American transcendentalist essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, known primarily through her connection to his family and correspondence.
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C.
Elsie Ann Ford
Elsie Ann Ford was an American actress and the mother of actor Robert Downey Jr.
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D.
Lucile Salter Packard
Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
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E.
Otelia Augspurger Compton
Otelia Augspurger Compton was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Arthur H. Compton and a member of a prominent Midwestern academic and religious family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
daughter
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Dot Edison ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1873-02-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1965-04-16 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of Dutch descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Edison ⓘ |
| father | Thomas Alva Edison ⓘ |
| givenName | Marion ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Estelle ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Stilwell Edison ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Mary Stilwell Edison
ⓘ
Thomas Alva Edison ⓘ Thomas Alva Edison Jr. ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Alva Edison
William Leslie Edison ⓘ |
| partOf | Edison family ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Newark, New Jersey, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Norwalk, Connecticut, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
ⓘ
West Orange, New Jersey, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling |
Thomas Alva Edison Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Alva Edison
William Leslie Edison ⓘ |
| spouse | Karl Oscar Oeser ⓘ |
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: Marion Estelle Edison Description of subject: Marion Estelle Edison was the daughter of inventor Thomas Edison and his first wife, Mary Stilwell.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Marion Estelle Edison
linked to: Marion Estelle Edison