Maria Skerrett
E27625
Maria Skerrett was the second wife of British statesman Sir Robert Walpole, serving as his companion during his later years as de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maria Skerrett canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T26029 — 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: Maria Skerrett Context triple: [Robert Walpole, spouse, Maria Skerrett]
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A.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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B.
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress known for her folk-inspired pop music and roles in musical theatre, including the hit musical "Blood Brothers."
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C.
Susannah Martin
Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Erin McDermott
Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
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E.
Melba Phillips
Melba Phillips was an influential American physicist and educator known for her work in theoretical physics and for coauthoring the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear physics.
- 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: Maria Skerrett Target entity description: Maria Skerrett was the second wife of British statesman Sir Robert Walpole, serving as his companion during his later years as de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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A.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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B.
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress known for her folk-inspired pop music and roles in musical theatre, including the hit musical "Blood Brothers."
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C.
Susannah Martin
Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Erin McDermott
Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
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E.
Melba Phillips
Melba Phillips was an influential American physicist and educator known for her work in theoretical physics and for coauthoring the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British socialite
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British statesman ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being companion to Robert Walpole in his later years
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being regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain ⓘ being the second wife of Sir Robert Walpole ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Robert Walpole ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain
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wife of Robert Walpole ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Horace Walpole ⓘ |
| residence | Great Britain ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialStatus | member of British elite society ⓘ |
| spouse |
Maria Skerrett
self-linksurface differs
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Robert Walpole ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
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: Maria Skerrett Description of subject: Maria Skerrett was the second wife of British statesman Sir Robert Walpole, serving as his companion during his later years as de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Robert Walpole