Mildred Riddle
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Mildred Riddle was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, whom he married while still a young man before his rise to national prominence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mildred Riddle canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1058623 — 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: Mildred Riddle Context triple: [William O. Douglas, spouse, Mildred Riddle]
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A.
Mildred Harris
Mildred Harris was an American silent film actress best known for her early Hollywood career and her brief marriage to Charlie Chaplin.
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B.
Mildred Watkins
Mildred Watkins was the wife of American politician and baseball commissioner Happy Chandler.
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C.
Nettie Moore
Nettie Moore is a song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album "Modern Times," noted for its haunting lyrics and blend of folk, blues, and Americana influences.
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D.
Gladys Louise Smith
Gladys Louise Smith is the birth name of Mary Pickford, the pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress and producer known as "America's Sweetheart."
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E.
Ruth Beatrice Baker
Ruth Beatrice Baker is a British-born educator best known as the third wife of Barack Obama Sr. and stepmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
- 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: Mildred Riddle Target entity description: Mildred Riddle was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, whom he married while still a young man before his rise to national prominence.
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A.
Mildred Harris
Mildred Harris was an American silent film actress best known for her early Hollywood career and her brief marriage to Charlie Chaplin.
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B.
Mildred Watkins
Mildred Watkins was the wife of American politician and baseball commissioner Happy Chandler.
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C.
Nettie Moore
Nettie Moore is a song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album "Modern Times," noted for its haunting lyrics and blend of folk, blues, and Americana influences.
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D.
Gladys Louise Smith
Gladys Louise Smith is the birth name of Mary Pickford, the pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress and producer known as "America's Sweetheart."
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E.
Ruth Beatrice Baker
Ruth Beatrice Baker is a British-born educator best known as the third wife of Barack Obama Sr. and stepmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableFor | being the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas ⓘ |
| occupation | Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | first wife of William O. Douglas ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mildred Riddle
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
William O. Douglas ⓘ |
| spouseOfCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| spouseOfName | William O. Douglas ⓘ |
| spouseOfNotability | longest-serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation | Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| spouseOfPosition | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
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: Mildred Riddle Description of subject: Mildred Riddle was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, whom he married while still a young man before his rise to national prominence.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William O. Douglas