Charles Henry Marshall
E183797
Charles Henry Marshall was an American businessman and member of New York high society, best known as the first husband of philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Henry Marshall canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T462855 — 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: Charles Henry Marshall Context triple: [Brooke Astor, spouse, Charles Henry Marshall]
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A.
John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
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B.
Arthur J. Brown
Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
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C.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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D.
Sir William John Kilpatrick
Sir William John Kilpatrick was a distinguished individual known primarily for bearing the Kilpatrick name with a conferred knighthood, indicating notable service or achievement.
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E.
William Rutherford Mead
William Rutherford Mead was an American architect best known as one of the principal partners in the influential late-19th- and early-20th-century architectural firm McKim, Mead & White.
- 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: Charles Henry Marshall Target entity description: Charles Henry Marshall was an American businessman and member of New York high society, best known as the first husband of philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor.
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A.
John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
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B.
Arthur J. Brown
Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
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C.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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D.
Sir William John Kilpatrick
Sir William John Kilpatrick was a distinguished individual known primarily for bearing the Kilpatrick name with a conferred knighthood, indicating notable service or achievement.
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E.
William Rutherford Mead
William Rutherford Mead was an American architect best known as one of the principal partners in the influential late-19th- and early-20th-century architectural firm McKim, Mead & White.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
member of high society ⓘ |
| child | Anthony Dryden Marshall ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Marshall ⓘ |
| givenName |
Charles
ⓘ
Henry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| memberOf | New York high society ⓘ |
| notableAssociatedFamily | Astor family ⓘ |
| notableAssociatedPerson |
Anthony Dryden Marshall
ⓘ
Brooke Astor ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first husband of Brooke Astor ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
John Jacob Astor IV
ⓘ
Vincent Astor ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialStatus | socialite by association ⓘ |
| spouse | Brooke Astor ⓘ |
| spouseEndReason | divorce ⓘ |
| spouseEndTime | 1930 ⓘ |
| spouseStartTime | 1919 ⓘ |
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: Charles Henry Marshall Description of subject: Charles Henry Marshall was an American businessman and member of New York high society, best known as the first husband of philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.