Mary Perkins Oglesby
E143795
Mary Perkins Oglesby was the mother of pioneering American film director D. W. Griffith.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Perkins Oglesby canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T450239 — 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 Perkins Oglesby Context triple: [D. W. Griffith, mother, Mary Perkins Oglesby]
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A.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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B.
Ann Fleming
Ann Fleming was a British socialite and literary hostess best known as the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and for her influential role in mid-20th-century London cultural circles.
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C.
Joanne Schieble
Joanne Schieble is an American woman best known as the biological mother of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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D.
Margo Anderson
Margo Anderson is best known as a former wife of American country music star Kenny Rogers.
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E.
Joanne Rogers
Joanne Rogers was an American concert pianist and television personality best known as the longtime wife and collaborator of children's television icon Fred Rogers and as a prominent advocate for his legacy.
- 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 Perkins Oglesby Target entity description: Mary Perkins Oglesby was the mother of pioneering American film director D. W. Griffith.
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A.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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B.
Ann Fleming
Ann Fleming was a British socialite and literary hostess best known as the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and for her influential role in mid-20th-century London cultural circles.
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C.
Joanne Schieble
Joanne Schieble is an American woman best known as the biological mother of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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D.
Margo Anderson
Margo Anderson is best known as a former wife of American country music star Kenny Rogers.
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E.
Joanne Rogers
Joanne Rogers was an American concert pianist and television personality best known as the longtime wife and collaborator of children's television icon Fred Rogers and as a prominent advocate for his legacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ human ⓘ mother ⓘ |
| child | D. W. Griffith ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Perkins Oglesby ⓘ |
| notableRole | mother of D. W. Griffith ⓘ |
| 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 Perkins Oglesby Description of subject: Mary Perkins Oglesby was the mother of pioneering American film director D. W. Griffith.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mary Perkins Oglesby