Mary Mackilwean
E294968
Mary Mackilwean was the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Mackilwean canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2071605 — 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 Mackilwean Context triple: [Richard Caswell, spouse, Mary Mackilwean]
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A.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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B.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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C.
Florence Mackenzie
Florence Mackenzie was the wife of Scottish Olympic champion and missionary Eric Liddell, known for supporting his work in China and caring for their family during his internment and death in World War II.
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D.
Agnes Maclehose
Agnes Maclehose, also known by the pseudonym "Clarinda," was a Scottish woman best remembered for her intense, epistolary romantic friendship with poet Robert Burns in the late 18th century.
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E.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
- 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 Mackilwean Target entity description: Mary Mackilwean was the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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A.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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B.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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C.
Florence Mackenzie
Florence Mackenzie was the wife of Scottish Olympic champion and missionary Eric Liddell, known for supporting his work in China and caring for their family during his internment and death in World War II.
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D.
Agnes Maclehose
Agnes Maclehose, also known by the pseudonym "Clarinda," was a Scottish woman best remembered for her intense, epistolary romantic friendship with poet Robert Burns in the late 18th century.
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E.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of North Carolina ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
First Governor of North Carolina
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Governor of North Carolina ⓘ |
| spouse | Richard Caswell ⓘ |
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 Mackilwean Description of subject: Mary Mackilwean was the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.