Mary Buchanan
E243410
Mary Buchanan was the wife of Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of Bengal in British India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Buchanan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2194795 — 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 Buchanan Context triple: [Warren Hastings, spouse, Mary Buchanan]
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A.
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph was a member of the prominent Harrison family of colonial Virginia and the wife of Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress.
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B.
Theodosia Burr Alston
Theodosia Burr Alston was the highly educated and beloved daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, remembered for her close intellectual relationship with her father and her mysterious disappearance at sea in 1813.
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C.
Jane Jefferson
Jane Jefferson was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson who died in early childhood and is known primarily through her connection to the Jefferson family.
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D.
Susan Elizabeth Mott
Susan Elizabeth Mott is a daughter of American industrialist and philanthropist Charles Stewart Mott.
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E.
Mary Izard
Mary Izard was a member of the prominent Izard family of South Carolina and the wife of American Founding Father and Continental Congress delegate Arthur Middleton.
- 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 Buchanan Target entity description: Mary Buchanan was the wife of Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of Bengal in British India.
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A.
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph was a member of the prominent Harrison family of colonial Virginia and the wife of Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress.
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B.
Theodosia Burr Alston
Theodosia Burr Alston was the highly educated and beloved daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, remembered for her close intellectual relationship with her father and her mysterious disappearance at sea in 1813.
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C.
Jane Jefferson
Jane Jefferson was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson who died in early childhood and is known primarily through her connection to the Jefferson family.
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D.
Susan Elizabeth Mott
Susan Elizabeth Mott is a daughter of American industrialist and philanthropist Charles Stewart Mott.
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E.
Mary Izard
Mary Izard was a member of the prominent Izard family of South Carolina and the wife of American Founding Father and Continental Congress delegate Arthur Middleton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Warren Hastings ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor-General of Bengal ⓘ |
| spouse | Warren Hastings ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Governor-General of Bengal ⓘ |
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 Buchanan Description of subject: Mary Buchanan was the wife of Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of Bengal in British India.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.