Mary Spencer Hull
E173294
Mary Spencer Hull was the wife of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the late 17th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Spencer Hull canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T355082 — 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 Spencer Hull Context triple: [William Phips, spouse, Mary Spencer Hull]
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A.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
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B.
Ellen Louisa Tucker
Ellen Louisa Tucker was the first wife of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose early death deeply influenced his life and work.
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C.
Frances Witz Hull
Frances Witz Hull was the wife of longtime U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Cordell Hull.
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D.
Susan Packard Orr
Susan Packard Orr is an American philanthropist and former technology executive known for her leadership roles in the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and on the board of Hewlett-Packard.
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E.
Margaret Gates Wallace
Margaret Gates Wallace was the mother of Bess Truman, the First Lady of the United States during Harry S. Truman’s presidency.
- 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 Spencer Hull Target entity description: Mary Spencer Hull was the wife of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the late 17th century.
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A.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
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B.
Ellen Louisa Tucker
Ellen Louisa Tucker was the first wife of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose early death deeply influenced his life and work.
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C.
Frances Witz Hull
Frances Witz Hull was the wife of longtime U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Cordell Hull.
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D.
Susan Packard Orr
Susan Packard Orr is an American philanthropist and former technology executive known for her leadership roles in the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and on the board of Hewlett-Packard.
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E.
Margaret Gates Wallace
Margaret Gates Wallace was the mother of Bess Truman, the First Lady of the United States during Harry S. Truman’s presidency.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British colonial America
ⓘ
linked to:
British America
Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | early colonial governance of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Spencer ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Mary Spencer Hull ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Sir William Phips ⓘ |
| positionHeld | first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
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| residence |
Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Spencer Hull
ⓘ
Sir William Phips ⓘ
linked to:
Governor William Phips
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| spouseTitle | Lady ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
late 17th century
ⓘ
late 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 Spencer Hull Description of subject: Mary Spencer Hull was the wife of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the late 17th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Governor William Phips
subject linked to:
Mary Spencer Hull
subject linked to:
Sir William Phipps