Mary Blanche Ball
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Mary Blanche Ball was the mother of American actor William Holden, one of classic Hollywood’s leading men.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Blanche Ball canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10280673 — 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 Blanche Ball Context triple: [William Holden, parent, Mary Blanche Ball]
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A.
Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge
Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge was an American socialite and political hostess best known as the wife of U.S. Vice President and Confederate general John C. Breckinridge.
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B.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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C.
Eliza Griffin Johnston
Eliza Griffin Johnston was the wife of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston and a 19th-century American woman known primarily through her association with his military and personal life.
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D.
Mary Izard
Mary Izard was a member of the prominent Izard family of South Carolina and the wife of American Founding Father and Continental Congress delegate Arthur Middleton.
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E.
Sallie White Bolling
Sallie White Bolling was the mother of Edith Bolling Wilson, the second wife of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and an influential First Lady.
- 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 Blanche Ball Target entity description: Mary Blanche Ball was the mother of American actor William Holden, one of classic Hollywood’s leading men.
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A.
Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge
Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge was an American socialite and political hostess best known as the wife of U.S. Vice President and Confederate general John C. Breckinridge.
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B.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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C.
Eliza Griffin Johnston
Eliza Griffin Johnston was the wife of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston and a 19th-century American woman known primarily through her association with his military and personal life.
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D.
Mary Izard
Mary Izard was a member of the prominent Izard family of South Carolina and the wife of American Founding Father and Continental Congress delegate Arthur Middleton.
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E.
Sallie White Bolling
Sallie White Bolling was the mother of Edith Bolling Wilson, the second wife of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and an influential First Lady.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | William Holden ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Blanche Ball ⓘ |
| notableRelative | William Holden ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 Blanche Ball Description of subject: Mary Blanche Ball was the mother of American actor William Holden, one of classic Hollywood’s leading men.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mary Blanche Ball