Mary McBride Smith
E151870
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary McBride Smith canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T802781 — 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 McBride Smith Context triple: [John Ford, spouse, Mary McBride Smith]
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A.
Margaret Ann Dixon
Margaret Ann Dixon is best known as the wife of acclaimed Canadian film director and producer Norman Jewison.
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B.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
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C.
Josephine Stovall
Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
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D.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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E.
Gladys Louise Smith
Gladys Louise Smith is the birth name of Mary Pickford, the pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress and producer known as "America's Sweetheart."
- 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 McBride Smith Target entity description: Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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A.
Margaret Ann Dixon
Margaret Ann Dixon is best known as the wife of acclaimed Canadian film director and producer Norman Jewison.
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B.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
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C.
Josephine Stovall
Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
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D.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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E.
Gladys Louise Smith
Gladys Louise Smith is the birth name of Mary Pickford, the pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress and producer known as "America's Sweetheart."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| occupation | film director ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Ford
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Mary McBride Smith ⓘ |
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 McBride Smith Description of subject: Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.