Katherine DeWalt Saxton
E628304
Katherine DeWalt Saxton was the mother of Ida Saxton McKinley, who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of President William McKinley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Katherine DeWalt Saxton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6735380 — 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: Katherine DeWalt Saxton Context triple: [Ida Saxton McKinley, mother, Katherine DeWalt Saxton]
-
A.
Katherine Woodcock
Katherine Woodcock was the second wife of the English poet John Milton, remembered primarily through his sonnet mourning her death shortly after childbirth.
-
B.
Katherine McCloskey Wilson
Katherine McCloskey Wilson was the wife of Malcolm Wilson, the 50th Governor of New York.
-
C.
Susan Jane Dillingham
Susan Jane Dillingham, better known by her stage name Samantha Lewes, was an American actress and the first wife of actor Tom Hanks.
-
D.
Kathryn Alexander
Kathryn Alexander is known as the daughter of American politician and former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander.
-
E.
Katherine Griffith
Katherine Griffith was an early 20th-century American film actress known for her roles in silent-era motion pictures.
- 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: Katherine DeWalt Saxton Target entity description: Katherine DeWalt Saxton was the mother of Ida Saxton McKinley, who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of President William McKinley.
-
A.
Katherine Woodcock
Katherine Woodcock was the second wife of the English poet John Milton, remembered primarily through his sonnet mourning her death shortly after childbirth.
-
B.
Katherine McCloskey Wilson
Katherine McCloskey Wilson was the wife of Malcolm Wilson, the 50th Governor of New York.
-
C.
Susan Jane Dillingham
Susan Jane Dillingham, better known by her stage name Samantha Lewes, was an American actress and the first wife of actor Tom Hanks.
-
D.
Kathryn Alexander
Kathryn Alexander is known as the daughter of American politician and former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander.
-
E.
Katherine Griffith
Katherine Griffith was an early 20th-century American film actress known for her roles in silent-era motion pictures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Ida Saxton McKinley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Saxton ⓘ |
| givenName | Katherine ⓘ |
| mother | Katherine DeWalt Saxton ⓘ |
| motherInLawOf | William McKinley ⓘ |
| motherOf | Ida Saxton McKinley ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Ida Saxton McKinley
ⓘ
William McKinley ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Canton, Ohio ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
First Lady of the United States
ⓘ
President of the United States ⓘ |
| relative | Ida Saxton McKinley ⓘ |
| residence | Canton, Ohio ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
James A. Saxton
ⓘ
William McKinley ⓘ |
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: Katherine DeWalt Saxton Description of subject: Katherine DeWalt Saxton was the mother of Ida Saxton McKinley, who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of President William McKinley.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.