Mary Willis Ambler
E202045
Mary Willis Ambler was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall and a member of a prominent Virginia family in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Willis Ambler canonical | 3 |
| Mary Willis Ambler Marshall | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T635129 — 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 Willis Ambler Context triple: [John Marshall, spouse, Mary Willis Ambler]
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A.
Mary Spencer Hull
Mary Spencer Hull was the wife of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the late 17th century.
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B.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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C.
Martha Vickers
Martha Vickers was an American film and television actress best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the classic noir film "The Big Sleep" (1946).
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D.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
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E.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
- 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 Willis Ambler Target entity description: Mary Willis Ambler was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall and a member of a prominent Virginia family in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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A.
Mary Spencer Hull
Mary Spencer Hull was the wife of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the late 17th century.
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B.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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C.
Martha Vickers
Martha Vickers was an American film and television actress best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the classic noir film "The Big Sleep" (1946).
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D.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
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E.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Ambler ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf | Ambler family ⓘ |
| name | Mary Willis Ambler self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a member of a prominent Virginia family
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being the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Virginia ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Justice of the United States ⓘ |
| relative | John Marshall ⓘ |
| residence | Virginia ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| socialStatus | member of Virginia elite ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Marshall
ⓘ
Mary Willis Ambler self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Chief Justice of the United States ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 19th century
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late 18th century ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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 Willis Ambler Description of subject: Mary Willis Ambler was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall and a member of a prominent Virginia family in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Marshall
this entity surface form:
Mary Willis Ambler Marshall