Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins
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Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins is the birth name of Mary Higgins Clark, the bestselling American author renowned for her suspense and mystery novels.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins canonical | 3 |
| Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1048018 — 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 Theresa Eleanor Higgins Context triple: [Mary Higgins Clark, birthName, Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins]
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A.
Margaret Guilfoyle
Margaret Guilfoyle was an Australian politician who served as a pioneering female cabinet minister and influential member of the Liberal Party in the late 20th century.
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B.
Katherine Mary Dewar
Katherine Mary Dewar was the wife of pioneering Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and a supportive partner in his personal and scientific life.
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C.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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D.
Mary Fowler Brennan
Mary Fowler Brennan was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter.
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E.
Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish
Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish was an American socialite and member of the Kennedy political family who became the Marchioness of Hartington and died tragically in a 1948 plane crash.
- 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 Theresa Eleanor Higgins Target entity description: Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins is the birth name of Mary Higgins Clark, the bestselling American author renowned for her suspense and mystery novels.
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A.
Margaret Guilfoyle
Margaret Guilfoyle was an Australian politician who served as a pioneering female cabinet minister and influential member of the Liberal Party in the late 20th century.
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B.
Anne Douglas Beverley
Anne Douglas Beverley was the wife of influential Virginia politician and long-serving U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr.
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C.
Katherine Mary Dewar
Katherine Mary Dewar was the wife of pioneering Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and a supportive partner in his personal and scientific life.
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D.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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E.
Mary Fowler Brennan
Mary Fowler Brennan was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Theresa Eleanor Higgins Description of subject: Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins is the birth name of Mary Higgins Clark, the bestselling American author renowned for her suspense and mystery novels.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins
subject linked to:
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins
subject linked to:
Higgins Clark