Mary Wilson
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Mary Wilson was the wife of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Francis Hutcheson, known primarily through her association with his life and work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Wilson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1435171 — 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 Wilson Context triple: [Francis Hutcheson, spouse, Mary Wilson]
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A.
Mary Wilson
Mary Wilson was an American singer best known as a founding member of the Motown girl group The Supremes.
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B.
Gladys Irene Owens
Gladys Irene Owens was the first wife of James Roosevelt II, the eldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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C.
Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight is an American soul and R&B singer, known as the "Empress of Soul," celebrated for her powerful vocals and hits with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips.
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D.
Addie Mae Collins
Addie Mae Collins was a 14-year-old African American girl who became one of the four young martyrs of the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal tragedy of the civil rights movement.
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E.
Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas is an American soul singer, often called the "Queen of Memphis Soul," known for hits like "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" and her influential recordings with Stax Records.
- 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 Wilson Target entity description: Mary Wilson was the wife of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Francis Hutcheson, known primarily through her association with his life and work.
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A.
Mary Wilson
Mary Wilson was an American singer best known as a founding member of the Motown girl group The Supremes.
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B.
Gladys Irene Owens
Gladys Irene Owens was the first wife of James Roosevelt II, the eldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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C.
Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight is an American soul and R&B singer, known as the "Empress of Soul," celebrated for her powerful vocals and hits with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips.
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D.
Addie Mae Collins
Addie Mae Collins was a 14-year-old African American girl who became one of the four young martyrs of the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal tragedy of the civil rights movement.
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E.
Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas is an American soul singer, often called the "Queen of Memphis Soul," known for hits like "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" and her influential recordings with Stax Records.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| movement | Scottish Enlightenment ⓘ |
| name | Mary Wilson ⓘ |
| notableFor | association with the life of Francis Hutcheson ⓘ |
| occupation | philosopher ⓘ |
| residence |
Dublin
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Glasgow ⓘ |
| spouse |
Francis Hutcheson
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Mary Wilson self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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 Wilson Description of subject: Mary Wilson was the wife of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Francis Hutcheson, known primarily through her association with his life and work.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Francis Hutcheson