Mary Lamson
E302403
Mary Lamson was the wife of Edwin M. Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Lamson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1782565 — 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 Lamson Context triple: [Edwin M. Stanton, spouse, Mary Lamson]
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A.
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.
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B.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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C.
Mary Ingersoll
Mary Ingersoll was the wife of American mathematician and navigator Nathaniel Bowditch, known primarily through her association with his life and work in early 19th-century New England.
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D.
Harriet Lothrop
Harriet Lothrop, better known by her pen name Margaret Sidney, was an American author famed for her "Five Little Peppers" children's book series and as the preserver of The Wayside historic home in Concord, Massachusetts.
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E.
Catherine Robbins Lyman
Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 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 Lamson Target entity description: Mary Lamson was the wife of Edwin M. Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln.
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A.
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.
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B.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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C.
Mary Ingersoll
Mary Ingersoll was the wife of American mathematician and navigator Nathaniel Bowditch, known primarily through her association with his life and work in early 19th-century New England.
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D.
Harriet Lothrop
Harriet Lothrop, better known by her pen name Margaret Sidney, was an American author famed for her "Five Little Peppers" children's book series and as the preserver of The Wayside historic home in Concord, Massachusetts.
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E.
Catherine Robbins Lyman
Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Edwin M. Stanton ⓘ |
| spouse | Edwin M. Stanton ⓘ |
| spouseCountryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouseEmployer | United States government ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
Secretary of War
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surface form:
United States Secretary of War
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| spousePositionHeld |
Secretary of War
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surface form:
U.S. Secretary of War
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| spouseServedUnder | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
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 Lamson Description of subject: Mary Lamson was the wife of Edwin M. Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.