Mattie Della Shaw
E227268
Mattie Della Shaw was the mother of the American musician Prince, who played a significant role in his early life and musical upbringing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mattie Della Shaw canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2010975 — 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: Mattie Della Shaw Context triple: [Prince, parent, Mattie Della Shaw]
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A.
Linious McGee
Linious McGee was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur who co-founded the airline that would eventually become Alaska Airlines.
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B.
Maggie Pierce
Maggie Pierce is a cardiothoracic surgeon and the biological half-sister of Meredith Grey on the long-running medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy.
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C.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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D.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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E.
Frieda MacTeer
Frieda MacTeer is a young African American girl in Toni Morrison’s novel "The Bluest Eye," known for her protective, outspoken nature and her role in witnessing and responding to the injustices faced by her friend Pecola Breedlove.
- 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: Mattie Della Shaw Target entity description: Mattie Della Shaw was the mother of the American musician Prince, who played a significant role in his early life and musical upbringing.
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A.
Linious McGee
Linious McGee was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur who co-founded the airline that would eventually become Alaska Airlines.
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B.
Maggie Pierce
Maggie Pierce is a cardiothoracic surgeon and the biological half-sister of Meredith Grey on the long-running medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy.
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C.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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D.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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E.
Frieda MacTeer
Frieda MacTeer is a young African American girl in Toni Morrison’s novel "The Bluest Eye," known for her protective, outspoken nature and her role in witnessing and responding to the injustices faced by her friend Pecola Breedlove.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mother ⓘ |
| child | Prince ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| influenceContext |
early life of Prince
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musical upbringing of Prince ⓘ |
| influenced | Prince ⓘ |
| mother | Mattie Della Shaw ⓘ |
| name | Mattie Della Shaw ⓘ |
| notableRole | mother of Prince ⓘ |
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: Mattie Della Shaw Description of subject: Mattie Della Shaw was the mother of the American musician Prince, who played a significant role in his early life and musical upbringing.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.