Mary Lee Woods
E18439
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Lee Woods canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5724 — 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 Lee Woods Context triple: [Tim Berners-Lee, parent, Mary Lee Woods]
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A.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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B.
Virginia Joan Bennett
Virginia Joan Bennett, better known as Joan Bennett Kennedy, is an American socialite, musician, and former model who was the first wife of longtime U.S. Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy.
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C.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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D.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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E.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
- 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 Lee Woods Target entity description: Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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A.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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B.
Virginia Joan Bennett
Virginia Joan Bennett, better known as Joan Bennett Kennedy, is an American socialite, musician, and former model who was the first wife of longtime U.S. Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy.
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C.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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D.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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E.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
ⓘ
human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| child |
Mike Berners-Lee
ⓘ
Tim Berners-Lee ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
|
| dateOfBirth | 1924-03-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-11-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Birmingham
ⓘ
surface form:
Birmingham University
University of Birmingham ⓘ |
| employer |
Ferranti
ⓘ
University of Manchester ⓘ
surface form:
University of Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory
|
| era |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| familyName | Woods ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasLastingImpactOn |
history of computing
ⓘ
women in computing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Mike Berners-Lee
ⓘ
Tim Berners-Lee ⓘ |
| name | Mary Lee Woods self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee
ⓘ
contributions to early computer development at Ferranti ⓘ |
| notableWork | work on early Ferranti computers ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Birmingham
ⓘ
England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| relative |
Conway Berners-Lee
ⓘ
Tim Berners-Lee ⓘ |
| residence |
England
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Conway Berners-Lee ⓘ |
| studied | mathematics ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Ferranti Mark I computer
ⓘ
early computers ⓘ |
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 Lee Woods Description of subject: Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.