Mary Elizabeth Horner
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Mary Elizabeth Horner, later known as Mary Horner Lyell, was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Elizabeth Horner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T613611 — 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 Elizabeth Horner Context triple: [Mary Horner Lyell, birthName, Mary Elizabeth Horner]
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A.
Mary Louise Bell
Mary Louise Bell was the first wife of renowned physicist Richard Feynman, whom he married after the death of his childhood sweetheart Arline Greenbaum.
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B.
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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C.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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D.
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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E.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
- 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 Elizabeth Horner Target entity description: Mary Elizabeth Horner, later known as Mary Horner Lyell, was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell.
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A.
Mary Louise Bell
Mary Louise Bell was the first wife of renowned physicist Richard Feynman, whom he married after the death of his childhood sweetheart Arline Greenbaum.
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B.
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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C.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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D.
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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E.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century person
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British scientist ⓘ conchologist ⓘ scientific illustrator ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mary Horner Lyell ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Charles Lyell ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
conchology
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natural history illustration ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| marriedName | Mary Horner Lyell ⓘ |
| name | Mary Elizabeth Horner ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborating with geologist Charles Lyell
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scientific illustration of geological and conchological specimens ⓘ |
| occupation |
conchologist
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scientific illustrator ⓘ |
| spouse | Charles Lyell ⓘ |
| spouseName | Charles Lyell ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | geologist ⓘ |
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 Elizabeth Horner Description of subject: Mary Elizabeth Horner, later known as Mary Horner Lyell, was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.