Catherine Devine McConnell
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Catherine Devine McConnell was the first wife of American actor and author Sterling Hayden, with whom she had several children before their eventual divorce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Catherine Devine McConnell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T964989 — 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: Catherine Devine McConnell Context triple: [Sterling Hayden, spouse, Catherine Devine McConnell]
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A.
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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B.
Catherine Ann Dunn
Catherine Ann Dunn is known as the wife of American politician and four-time New York governor Al Smith.
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C.
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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D.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
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E.
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.
- 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: Catherine Devine McConnell Target entity description: Catherine Devine McConnell was the first wife of American actor and author Sterling Hayden, with whom she had several children before their eventual divorce.
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A.
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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B.
Catherine Ann Dunn
Catherine Ann Dunn is known as the wife of American politician and four-time New York governor Al Smith.
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C.
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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D.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| hasChildWith | Sterling Hayden ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of American actor and author Sterling Hayden ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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author ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Catherine Devine McConnell
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Sterling Hayden ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of Sterling Hayden ⓘ |
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: Catherine Devine McConnell Description of subject: Catherine Devine McConnell was the first wife of American actor and author Sterling Hayden, with whom she had several children before their eventual divorce.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Catherine Devine McConnell