Mary Maxcy Herndon
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Mary Maxcy Herndon was the wife of American lawyer and Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Maxcy Herndon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2251613 — 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 Maxcy Herndon Context triple: [William Herndon, spouse, Mary Maxcy Herndon]
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A.
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks was the wife of U.S. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and an American political hostess active in 19th-century public life.
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B.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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C.
Alma Johnson Powell
Alma Johnson Powell is an American audiologist and education advocate best known as the longtime wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and for her leadership in children’s and literacy initiatives.
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D.
Louvenia Breedlove
Louvenia Breedlove was the sister of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
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E.
Elizabeth Wells
Elizabeth Wells was the wife of American Founding Father and revolutionary leader Samuel Adams.
- 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 Maxcy Herndon Target entity description: Mary Maxcy Herndon was the wife of American lawyer and Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon.
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A.
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks was the wife of U.S. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and an American political hostess active in 19th-century public life.
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B.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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C.
Alma Johnson Powell
Alma Johnson Powell is an American audiologist and education advocate best known as the longtime wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and for her leadership in children’s and literacy initiatives.
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D.
Louvenia Breedlove
Louvenia Breedlove was the sister of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
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E.
Elizabeth Wells
Elizabeth Wells was the wife of American Founding Father and revolutionary leader Samuel Adams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Mary Maxcy Herndon ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being Abraham Lincoln’s law partner
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being the wife of Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon ⓘ |
| occupation |
biographer
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lawyer ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Maxcy Herndon
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William H. Herndon ⓘ
linked to:
William Herndon
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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 Maxcy Herndon Description of subject: Mary Maxcy Herndon was the wife of American lawyer and Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.