Mary Pinkney
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Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur was the wife of U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur and the mother of their only child, Arthur MacArthur IV.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Pinkney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8171324 — 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 Pinkney Context triple: [Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur, givenName, Mary Pinkney]
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A.
Mary Pugh
Mary Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Pugh.
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B.
Mary Singleton
Mary Singleton was the mother of renowned American colonial-era portrait painter John Singleton Copley.
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C.
Mary Matthews
Mary Matthews is the idealistic socialite protagonist of the 1945 political drama film "State of the Union," who becomes entangled in her husband's bid for the U.S. presidency.
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D.
Mary Cunningham
Mary Cunningham is known as the spouse of Welsh actor Clive Merrison, recognized for his extensive work in British television, film, and radio drama.
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E.
Cynthia Purley
Cynthia Purley is the emotionally fragile, working-class woman at the center of Mike Leigh’s film "Secrets & Lies," whose life is upended when the adult daughter she gave up for adoption seeks her out.
- 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 Pinkney Target entity description: Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur was the wife of U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur and the mother of their only child, Arthur MacArthur IV.
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A.
Mary Pugh
Mary Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Pugh.
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B.
Mary Singleton
Mary Singleton was the mother of renowned American colonial-era portrait painter John Singleton Copley.
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C.
Mary Matthews
Mary Matthews is the idealistic socialite protagonist of the 1945 political drama film "State of the Union," who becomes entangled in her husband's bid for the U.S. presidency.
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D.
Mary Cunningham
Mary Cunningham is known as the spouse of Welsh actor Clive Merrison, recognized for his extensive work in British television, film, and radio drama.
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E.
Cynthia Purley
Cynthia Purley is the emotionally fragile, working-class woman at the center of Mike Leigh’s film "Secrets & Lies," whose life is upended when the adult daughter she gave up for adoption seeks her out.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse of a politician or military leader ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary Pinkney Hardy ⓘ |
| child | Arthur MacArthur IV ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Hardy
ⓘ
MacArthur ⓘ |
| givenName |
Mary
ⓘ
Pinkney ⓘ |
| name | Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember |
Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur
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Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of Arthur MacArthur IV
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being the wife of General Douglas MacArthur ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Army general ⓘ |
| parent | Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur ⓘ |
| spouse |
Douglas MacArthur
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Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | U.S. Army general ⓘ |
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 Pinkney Description of subject: Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur was the wife of U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur and the mother of their only child, Arthur MacArthur IV.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Malcolm MacArthur