Mary Forman
E246559
Mary Forman is known primarily as the spouse of civil rights leader and activist James Forman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Forman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2257058 — 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 Forman Context triple: [James Forman, spouse, Mary Forman]
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A.
Lee Russell
Lee Russell was an American photographer known for his work documenting rural life and poverty in the United States as part of the Farm Security Administration project during the Great Depression.
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B.
Barbara Loden
Barbara Loden was an American actress and pioneering independent filmmaker best known for writing, directing, and starring in the 1970 film "Wanda."
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C.
Priscilla Lane
Priscilla Lane was an American film actress best known as one of the Lane Sisters and for her roles in popular 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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D.
Sally Reed
Sally Reed was the woman whose challenge to a discriminatory Idaho inheritance law led to the landmark 1971 U.S. Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, the first to strike down a law for sex-based discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause.
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E.
Patricia Russo
Patricia Russo is an American business executive best known for serving as CEO of Lucent Technologies and later Alcatel-Lucent.
- 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 Forman Target entity description: Mary Forman is known primarily as the spouse of civil rights leader and activist James Forman.
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A.
Lee Russell
Lee Russell was an American photographer known for his work documenting rural life and poverty in the United States as part of the Farm Security Administration project during the Great Depression.
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B.
Barbara Loden
Barbara Loden was an American actress and pioneering independent filmmaker best known for writing, directing, and starring in the 1970 film "Wanda."
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C.
Priscilla Lane
Priscilla Lane was an American film actress best known as one of the Lane Sisters and for her roles in popular 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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D.
Sally Reed
Sally Reed was the woman whose challenge to a discriminatory Idaho inheritance law led to the landmark 1971 U.S. Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, the first to strike down a law for sex-based discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause.
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E.
Patricia Russo
Patricia Russo is an American business executive best known for serving as CEO of Lucent Technologies and later Alcatel-Lucent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | James Forman ⓘ |
| hasRelative | James Forman ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the spouse of civil rights leader James Forman ⓘ |
| spouse | James Forman ⓘ |
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 Forman Description of subject: Mary Forman is known primarily as the spouse of civil rights leader and activist James Forman.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.