Mary Langford
E1038806
Mary Langford was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, a prominent statesman and historian under King Charles II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Langford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12837463 — 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 Langford Context triple: [Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, mother, Mary Langford]
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A.
Mary Fawcett
Mary Fawcett was the mother of British academic and politician Henry Fawcett, a noted 19th-century economist and Postmaster General.
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B.
Mary Ellis
Mary Ellis was a British actress known for her work on stage and screen in the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
Jane Fosset
Jane Fosset is the young, unmarried pregnant woman who serves as the central protagonist of Lynne Reid Banks’s novel *The L-Shaped Room*, navigating social stigma and personal growth in 1950s London.
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D.
Mary Appleby
Mary Appleby is known as the spouse of Richard Butler.
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E.
Hazel Langford
Hazel Langford is the wife of British science fiction author and critic David Langford.
- 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 Langford Target entity description: Mary Langford was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, a prominent statesman and historian under King Charles II.
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A.
Mary Fawcett
Mary Fawcett was the mother of British academic and politician Henry Fawcett, a noted 19th-century economist and Postmaster General.
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B.
Mary Ellis
Mary Ellis was a British actress known for her work on stage and screen in the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
Jane Fosset
Jane Fosset is the young, unmarried pregnant woman who serves as the central protagonist of Lynne Reid Banks’s novel *The L-Shaped Room*, navigating social stigma and personal growth in 1950s London.
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D.
Mary Appleby
Mary Appleby is known as the spouse of Richard Butler.
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E.
Hazel Langford
Hazel Langford is the wife of British science fiction author and critic David Langford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
17th-century English person
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English gentlewoman ⓘ |
| child | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| familyName | Langford ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 17th century ⓘ |
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 Langford Description of subject: Mary Langford was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, a prominent statesman and historian under King Charles II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.