Mary Coddington
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Mary Coddington was the wife of colonial merchant and politician William Trent, associated with early 18th-century Pennsylvania and New Jersey society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Coddington canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8659572 — 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 Coddington Context triple: [William Trent, spouse, Mary Coddington]
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A.
Sarah Davenport
Sarah Davenport was the wife of colonial American Congregational minister and educator Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College.
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B.
Mary Richenda Cunningham
Mary Richenda Cunningham was the wife of Victorian judge and legal historian Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, noted mainly for her role within his prominent legal and intellectual household.
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C.
Mary Meredith
Mary Meredith is a fictional character from the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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D.
Ruby Gentry
Ruby Gentry is a 1952 American melodrama film directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones as a poor Southern woman whose passionate love and social struggles lead to tragedy.
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E.
Sorrel Carson
Sorrel Carson is a British actress and theatre professional best known for her marriage to actor and songwriter Trevor Peacock.
- 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 Coddington Target entity description: Mary Coddington was the wife of colonial merchant and politician William Trent, associated with early 18th-century Pennsylvania and New Jersey society.
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A.
Sarah Davenport
Sarah Davenport was the wife of colonial American Congregational minister and educator Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College.
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B.
Mary Richenda Cunningham
Mary Richenda Cunningham was the wife of Victorian judge and legal historian Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, noted mainly for her role within his prominent legal and intellectual household.
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C.
Mary Meredith
Mary Meredith is a fictional character from the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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D.
Ruby Gentry
Ruby Gentry is a 1952 American melodrama film directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones as a poor Southern woman whose passionate love and social struggles lead to tragedy.
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E.
Sorrel Carson
Sorrel Carson is a British actress and theatre professional best known for her marriage to actor and songwriter Trevor Peacock.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Province of New Jersey
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Province of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Trent family
ⓘ
colonial New Jersey ⓘ
linked to:
Colonial era of New Jersey
colonial Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| familyName | Coddington ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageUsed | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with colonial merchant and politician William Trent
ⓘ
marriage into the Trent family ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
ⓘ
politician ⓘ socialite ⓘ |
| partOf |
early 18th-century New Jersey society
ⓘ
early 18th-century Pennsylvania society ⓘ |
| positionHeld | wife of William Trent ⓘ |
| residence |
Province of New Jersey
ⓘ
Province of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClass | colonial elite ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Coddington
ⓘ
William Trent ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 18th 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 Coddington Description of subject: Mary Coddington was the wife of colonial merchant and politician William Trent, associated with early 18th-century Pennsylvania and New Jersey society.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mary Coddington