Margaret Hooper Mahon
E175496
Margaret Hooper Mahon was the wife of Canadian medical scientist Charles Best, who co-discovered insulin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margaret Hooper Mahon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T944427 — 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: Margaret Hooper Mahon Context triple: [Charles Best, spouse, Margaret Hooper Mahon]
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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.
Margaret Crocker
Margaret Crocker was a 19th-century Sacramento philanthropist best known for donating her late husband's extensive art collection and endowing what became the Crocker Art Museum.
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C.
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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D.
Margaret Craig McNamara
Margaret Craig McNamara was an American educator and literacy advocate best known as the founder of the nonprofit organization Reading Is Fundamental (RIF).
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E.
Adelaide Howard Childs
Adelaide Howard Childs was an American socialite best known as the wife of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick.
- 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: Margaret Hooper Mahon Target entity description: Margaret Hooper Mahon was the wife of Canadian medical scientist Charles Best, who co-discovered insulin.
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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.
Margaret Crocker
Margaret Crocker was a 19th-century Sacramento philanthropist best known for donating her late husband's extensive art collection and endowing what became the Crocker Art Museum.
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C.
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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D.
Margaret Craig McNamara
Margaret Craig McNamara was an American educator and literacy advocate best known as the founder of the nonprofit organization Reading Is Fundamental (RIF).
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E.
Adelaide Howard Childs
Adelaide Howard Childs was an American socialite best known as the wife of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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Canada ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-discovering insulin ⓘ |
| name | Margaret Hooper Mahon ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Canadian medical scientist Charles Best ⓘ |
| occupation | medical scientist ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charles Best
ⓘ
Margaret Hooper Mahon ⓘ |
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: Margaret Hooper Mahon Description of subject: Margaret Hooper Mahon was the wife of Canadian medical scientist Charles Best, who co-discovered insulin.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.