Mark Herron
E102022
Mark Herron was an American actor best known for being the fourth husband of legendary entertainer Judy Garland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Herron canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T171026 — 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: Mark Herron Context triple: [Judy Garland, spouse, Mark Herron]
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A.
Jeff Henley
Jeff Henley is an American business executive best known for his long tenure as Oracle Corporation’s chief financial officer and later chairman of the board.
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B.
Ken Howery
Ken Howery is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal who later served as a partner at Founders Fund and as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden.
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C.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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D.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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E.
Derek Dowding
Derek Dowding was a Royal Air Force officer and the son of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, noted for his own distinguished service in military aviation.
- 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: Mark Herron Target entity description: Mark Herron was an American actor best known for being the fourth husband of legendary entertainer Judy Garland.
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A.
Jeff Henley
Jeff Henley is an American business executive best known for his long tenure as Oracle Corporation’s chief financial officer and later chairman of the board.
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B.
Ken Howery
Ken Howery is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal who later served as a partner at Founders Fund and as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden.
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C.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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D.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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E.
Derek Dowding
Derek Dowding was a Royal Air Force officer and the son of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, noted for his own distinguished service in military aviation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mark Herron ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the fourth husband of Judy Garland ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Judy Garland ⓘ |
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: Mark Herron Description of subject: Mark Herron was an American actor best known for being the fourth husband of legendary entertainer Judy Garland.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.