Mary DeWitt
E241030
Mary DeWitt was the mother of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary DeWitt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1505698 — 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 DeWitt Context triple: [DeWitt Clinton, mother, Mary DeWitt]
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A.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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B.
Caroline Elizabeth DeWint
Caroline Elizabeth DeWint was the wife of influential American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing and a member of the prominent DeWint family of New York.
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C.
Abigail Cruttenden
Abigail Cruttenden is an English actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in period dramas and British TV series.
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D.
Desire Howland
Desire Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known as the daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of early Plymouth Colony society.
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E.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
- 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 DeWitt Target entity description: Mary DeWitt was the mother of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
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A.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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B.
Caroline Elizabeth DeWint
Caroline Elizabeth DeWint was the wife of influential American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing and a member of the prominent DeWint family of New York.
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C.
Abigail Cruttenden
Abigail Cruttenden is an English actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in period dramas and British TV series.
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D.
Desire Howland
Desire Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known as the daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of early Plymouth Colony society.
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E.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | DeWitt Clinton ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableRelative | DeWitt Clinton ⓘ |
| residence | New York ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 DeWitt Description of subject: Mary DeWitt was the mother of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.