Mary Barstow
E174757
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Barstow canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T395702 — 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 Barstow Context triple: [Norman Rockwell, spouse, Mary Barstow]
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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.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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C.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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D.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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E.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks 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 Barstow Target entity description: Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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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.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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C.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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D.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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E.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Jarvis Waring Rockwell
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Peter Barstow Rockwell ⓘ Thomas Rhodes Rockwell ⓘ |
| mother |
Mary Barstow
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Mary Barstow ⓘ Mary Barstow ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of Norman Rockwell's three sons
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being the second wife of Norman Rockwell ⓘ |
| occupation | illustrator ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | second wife of Norman Rockwell ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Barstow
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Norman Rockwell ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | illustrator ⓘ |
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 Barstow Description of subject: Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
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Mary Barstow
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Mary Barstow
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