Matilda Witherington
E581299
Matilda Witherington was the wife of Irish revolutionary leader Theobald Wolfe Tone and a supportive partner in his political and personal life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matilda Witherington canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6283187 — 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: Matilda Witherington Context triple: [Theobald Wolfe Tone, spouse, Matilda Witherington]
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A.
Matilda Wormwood
Matilda Wormwood is the brilliant, book-loving young girl with telekinetic powers at the center of Roald Dahl’s novel and its film adaptation.
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B.
Matilda Shapiro
Matilda Shapiro was the wife of Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright Sholem Asch, a prominent figure in Yiddish literature.
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C.
Edith Murgatroyd
Edith Murgatroyd was a British actress active during the silent film era, known for her role in early 1920s cinema.
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D.
Mary Anne Roscoe
Mary Anne Roscoe was a 19th-century English writer and the mother of influential economist and logician William Stanley Jevons.
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E.
Mary Milton
Mary Milton was one of the daughters of the English poet John Milton, best known for her familial connection to the author of "Paradise Lost."
- 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: Matilda Witherington Target entity description: Matilda Witherington was the wife of Irish revolutionary leader Theobald Wolfe Tone and a supportive partner in his political and personal life.
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A.
Matilda Wormwood
Matilda Wormwood is the brilliant, book-loving young girl with telekinetic powers at the center of Roald Dahl’s novel and its film adaptation.
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B.
Matilda Shapiro
Matilda Shapiro was the wife of Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright Sholem Asch, a prominent figure in Yiddish literature.
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C.
Edith Murgatroyd
Edith Murgatroyd was a British actress active during the silent film era, known for her role in early 1920s cinema.
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D.
Mary Anne Roscoe
Mary Anne Roscoe was a 19th-century English writer and the mother of influential economist and logician William Stanley Jevons.
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E.
Mary Milton
Mary Milton was one of the daughters of the English poet John Milton, best known for her familial connection to the author of "Paradise Lost."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of Irish revolutionary leader Theobald Wolfe Tone
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supporting Theobald Wolfe Tone in his personal life ⓘ supporting Theobald Wolfe Tone in his political life ⓘ |
| partnerIn |
personal life of Theobald Wolfe Tone
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political activities of Theobald Wolfe Tone ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Theobald Wolfe Tone ⓘ |
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: Matilda Witherington Description of subject: Matilda Witherington was the wife of Irish revolutionary leader Theobald Wolfe Tone and a supportive partner in his political and personal life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.