Mary Yeager
E371118
Mary Yeager is an American history professor best known as the longtime wife of actor John Lithgow.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Yeager canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3585088 — 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 Yeager Context triple: [John Lithgow, spouse, Mary Yeager]
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A.
Glennis Dickhouse Yeager
Glennis Dickhouse Yeager was the wife of famed test pilot Chuck Yeager and the namesake of the Bell X-1 aircraft "Glamorous Glennis."
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B.
Marilyn Lovell
Marilyn Lovell is the wife of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, known for her role in supporting him and their family during his NASA career and the historic mission crisis.
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C.
Elizabeth Mattingly
Elizabeth Mattingly is known as the wife of former NASA astronaut and Apollo program command module pilot Ken Mattingly.
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D.
Sheila Gestring
Sheila Gestring is an American higher education leader who serves as the president of the University of South Dakota.
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E.
Linda Louise Eastman
Linda Louise Eastman was an American photographer, animal rights activist, and musician best known as Linda McCartney, the wife and artistic collaborator of Paul McCartney.
- 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 Yeager Target entity description: Mary Yeager is an American history professor best known as the longtime wife of actor John Lithgow.
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A.
Glennis Dickhouse Yeager
Glennis Dickhouse Yeager was the wife of famed test pilot Chuck Yeager and the namesake of the Bell X-1 aircraft "Glamorous Glennis."
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B.
Marilyn Lovell
Marilyn Lovell is the wife of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, known for her role in supporting him and their family during his NASA career and the historic mission crisis.
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C.
Elizabeth Mattingly
Elizabeth Mattingly is known as the wife of former NASA astronaut and Apollo program command module pilot Ken Mattingly.
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D.
Sheila Gestring
Sheila Gestring is an American higher education leader who serves as the president of the University of South Dakota.
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E.
Linda Louise Eastman
Linda Louise Eastman was an American photographer, animal rights activist, and musician best known as Linda McCartney, the wife and artistic collaborator of Paul McCartney.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
historian ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Yeager ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | history ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the longtime wife of actor John Lithgow ⓘ |
| occupation | history professor ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Lithgow
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Mary Yeager self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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 Yeager Description of subject: Mary Yeager is an American history professor best known as the longtime wife of actor John Lithgow.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Lithgow