Mary Surratt
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Mary Surratt was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Surratt canonical | 50 |
| Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt | 2 |
| Mary E. Surratt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T186014 — 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 Surratt Context triple: [Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, conspirator, Mary Surratt]
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A.
George Atzerodt
George Atzerodt was a German-born conspirator in John Wilkes Booth’s plot who was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson during the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
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B.
David Herold
David Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who helped carry out the broader plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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C.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor and Confederate sympathizer best known for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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D.
Junius Brutus Booth
Junius Brutus Booth was a renowned 19th-century English-born American Shakespearean actor known for his powerful performances and as the patriarch of the famous Booth acting family.
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E.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
- 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 Surratt Target entity description: Mary Surratt was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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A.
George Atzerodt
George Atzerodt was a German-born conspirator in John Wilkes Booth’s plot who was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson during the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
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B.
David Herold
David Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who helped carry out the broader plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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C.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor and Confederate sympathizer best known for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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D.
Junius Brutus Booth
Junius Brutus Booth was a renowned 19th-century English-born American Shakespearean actor known for his powerful performances and as the patriarch of the famous Booth acting family.
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E.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Surratt Description of subject: Mary Surratt was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mary Surratt
subject linked to:
Atzerodt
subject linked to:
Atzerodt
subject linked to:
Washington Arsenal Penitentiary, Washington, D.C.
subject linked to:
Surratt
linked to: Mary Surratt
subject linked to:
Surratt
linked to: Mary Surratt
subject linked to:
Mary Surratt’s boarding house, Washington, D.C., United States
subject linked to:
Mary Surratt’s boarding house, Washington, D.C., United States
subject linked to:
Mary Surratt’s boarding house, Washington, D.C., United States
subject linked to:
Mary Surratt’s boarding house, Washington, D.C., United States