Mary Williams
E150117
Mary Williams was the wife of American planter and statesman Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial South Carolina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Williams canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T280727 — 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 Williams Context triple: [Henry Middleton, spouse, Mary Williams]
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A.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
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B.
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison was an acclaimed American novelist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate best known for her powerful explorations of African American life and history in works such as "Beloved."
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C.
Mary Newman
Mary Newman was the first wife of the English sea captain and explorer Sir Francis Drake in the late 16th century.
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D.
Lisa Rogers
Lisa Rogers is a member of the Rogers family, known as the daughter of Canadian businessman and media magnate Ted Rogers.
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E.
Priscilla Anne Wilkinson
Priscilla Anne Wilkinson was the wife of influential classical economist David Ricardo, known primarily through her marriage into his prominent 19th-century English family.
- 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 Williams Target entity description: Mary Williams was the wife of American planter and statesman Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial South Carolina.
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A.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
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B.
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison was an acclaimed American novelist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate best known for her powerful explorations of African American life and history in works such as "Beloved."
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C.
Mary Newman
Mary Newman was the first wife of the English sea captain and explorer Sir Francis Drake in the late 16th century.
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D.
Lisa Rogers
Lisa Rogers is a member of the Rogers family, known as the daughter of Canadian businessman and media magnate Ted Rogers.
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E.
Priscilla Anne Wilkinson
Priscilla Anne Wilkinson was the wife of influential classical economist David Ricardo, known primarily through her marriage into his prominent 19th-century English family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Great Britain
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Thirteen Colonies ⓘ Thirteen Colonies ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with colonial South Carolina planter society
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being a prominent figure in colonial South Carolina ⓘ being the wife of Henry Middleton ⓘ |
| occupation |
planter
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planter's wife ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Province of South Carolina ⓘ |
| residence |
Charleston, South Carolina
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South Carolina ⓘ South Carolina ⓘ |
| socialClass | planter elite ⓘ |
| spouse |
Henry Middleton
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Mary Williams ⓘ |
| timePeriod | colonial 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: Mary Williams Description of subject: Mary Williams was the wife of American planter and statesman Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial South Carolina.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Arthur Middleton (signer of the Declaration of Independence)
subject linked to:
Mary Williams