Ruth McCord
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Ruth McCord is known primarily as the wife of James W. McCord Jr., a former CIA officer and key figure in the Watergate scandal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruth McCord canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7533075 — 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: Ruth McCord Context triple: [James W. McCord Jr., spouse, Ruth McCord]
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A.
Elizabeth McCord
Elizabeth McCord is the principled and pragmatic U.S. Secretary of State at the center of the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known for her diplomatic skill and moral conviction.
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B.
Ruth Storey
Ruth Storey was an American actress active in the mid-20th century, known for her supporting roles in film and television.
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C.
Ruth Buck
Ruth Buck was the mother of Irish astronomer and physicist John Thomas Romney Robinson.
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D.
Ruth Lay
Ruth Lay was the mother of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay and a member of the family from which he emerged.
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E.
Dorothy Collins
Dorothy Collins was a collaborator and co-author with social psychologist Leon Festinger, contributing to influential research in social psychology.
- 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: Ruth McCord Target entity description: Ruth McCord is known primarily as the wife of James W. McCord Jr., a former CIA officer and key figure in the Watergate scandal.
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A.
Elizabeth McCord
Elizabeth McCord is the principled and pragmatic U.S. Secretary of State at the center of the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known for her diplomatic skill and moral conviction.
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B.
Ruth Storey
Ruth Storey was an American actress active in the mid-20th century, known for her supporting roles in film and television.
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C.
Ruth Buck
Ruth Buck was the mother of Irish astronomer and physicist John Thomas Romney Robinson.
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D.
Ruth Lay
Ruth Lay was the mother of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay and a member of the family from which he emerged.
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E.
Dorothy Collins
Dorothy Collins was a collaborator and co-author with social psychologist Leon Festinger, contributing to influential research in social psychology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Watergate scandal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableFor |
Watergate scandal
ⓘ
being the wife of James W. McCord Jr. ⓘ |
| occupation | Central Intelligence Agency officer ⓘ |
| spouse |
James W. McCord Jr.
ⓘ
Ruth McCord ⓘ |
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: Ruth McCord Description of subject: Ruth McCord is known primarily as the wife of James W. McCord Jr., a former CIA officer and key figure in the Watergate scandal.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ruth McCord