Mary Valentine Wood Johnston
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Mary Valentine Wood Johnston was the mother of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and a member of a prominent Virginia family in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Valentine Wood Johnston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6208717 — 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 Valentine Wood Johnston Context triple: [Joseph E. Johnston, mother, Mary Valentine Wood Johnston]
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A.
Sarah H. Joslyn
Sarah H. Joslyn was a prominent Omaha philanthropist whose generosity and patronage of the arts led to the creation of the Joslyn Art Museum.
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B.
Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn
Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn is the comically pretentious mayor’s wife and self-important social leader in the musical "The Music Man."
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C.
Josephine Crowell
Josephine Crowell was a Canadian-born character actress of the silent film era, known for her frequent collaborations with director D. W. Griffith and appearances in numerous early Hollywood productions.
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D.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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E.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
- 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 Valentine Wood Johnston Target entity description: Mary Valentine Wood Johnston was the mother of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and a member of a prominent Virginia family in the early 19th century.
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A.
Sarah H. Joslyn
Sarah H. Joslyn was a prominent Omaha philanthropist whose generosity and patronage of the arts led to the creation of the Joslyn Art Museum.
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B.
Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn
Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn is the comically pretentious mayor’s wife and self-important social leader in the musical "The Music Man."
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C.
Josephine Crowell
Josephine Crowell was a Canadian-born character actress of the silent film era, known for her frequent collaborations with director D. W. Griffith and appearances in numerous early Hollywood productions.
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D.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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E.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of European descent ⓘ |
| memberOf | prominent Virginia family ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| motherOf | Joseph E. Johnston ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Johnston family of Virginia ⓘ |
| participantIn | American Civil War ⓘ |
| residence | Virginia ⓘ |
| sexOrGender |
female
ⓘ
male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th 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: Mary Valentine Wood Johnston Description of subject: Mary Valentine Wood Johnston was the mother of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and a member of a prominent Virginia family in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.