Margaret Buell Wilder
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Margaret Buell Wilder was an American writer best known for her World War II-era letters that inspired the film "Since You Went Away."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margaret Buell Wilder canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10750808 — 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: Margaret Buell Wilder Context triple: [Since You Went Away, authorOfSourceWork, Margaret Buell Wilder]
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A.
Marian Walker Brown
Marian Walker Brown was the wife of U.S. Senator Prentiss M. Brown and a member of a prominent Michigan political family in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Grace Hulbert Wilson
Grace Hulbert Wilson was the wife of U.S. Army Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves Jr., the military leader who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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C.
May Wright Sewall
May Wright Sewall was an American educator, suffragist, and social reformer known for her leadership in the women’s rights and peace movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Anne Drinkard Moss
Anne Drinkard Moss is a gospel singer best known as a member of the pioneering family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape modern gospel music.
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E.
Mary Clemmer Ames
Mary Clemmer Ames was a 19th-century American journalist, author, and social commentator known for her influential newspaper columns and writings on politics, culture, and women's issues.
- 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: Margaret Buell Wilder Target entity description: Margaret Buell Wilder was an American writer best known for her World War II-era letters that inspired the film "Since You Went Away."
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A.
Marian Walker Brown
Marian Walker Brown was the wife of U.S. Senator Prentiss M. Brown and a member of a prominent Michigan political family in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Grace Hulbert Wilson
Grace Hulbert Wilson was the wife of U.S. Army Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves Jr., the military leader who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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C.
May Wright Sewall
May Wright Sewall was an American educator, suffragist, and social reformer known for her leadership in the women’s rights and peace movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Anne Drinkard Moss
Anne Drinkard Moss is a gospel singer best known as a member of the pioneering family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape modern gospel music.
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E.
Mary Clemmer Ames
Mary Clemmer Ames was a 19th-century American journalist, author, and social commentator known for her influential newspaper columns and writings on politics, culture, and women's issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
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author ⓘ human ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| basedOn | Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier From His Wife ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
epistolary literature
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
World War II-era letters to her soldier husband
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inspiring the film Since You Went Away ⓘ |
| notableWork | Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier From His Wife ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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writer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| subjectOf | biographical references in film history sources ⓘ |
| workInspired |
Since You Went Away (film)
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linked to:
Since You Went Away
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| writingPeriod | World War II era ⓘ |
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: Margaret Buell Wilder Description of subject: Margaret Buell Wilder was an American writer best known for her World War II-era letters that inspired the film "Since You Went Away."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.