Mary Alice Beistle
E272305
Mary Alice Beistle was the wife of abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko and the mother of his two children.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Alice Beistle canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T967388 — 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 Alice Beistle Context triple: [Mark Rothko, spouse, Mary Alice Beistle]
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A.
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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B.
Elizabeth Reaser
Elizabeth Reaser is an American actress best known for her roles in the Twilight film series and the television drama Grey's Anatomy.
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C.
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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D.
Mary Louise Smith
Mary Louise Smith was a young African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, helped lead to the landmark desegregation case Browder v. Gayle.
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E.
Mary Elizabeth Horner
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.
- 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 Alice Beistle Target entity description: Mary Alice Beistle was the wife of abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko and the mother of his two children.
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A.
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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B.
Elizabeth Reaser
Elizabeth Reaser is an American actress best known for her roles in the Twilight film series and the television drama Grey's Anatomy.
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C.
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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D.
Mary Louise Smith
Mary Louise Smith was a young African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, helped lead to the landmark desegregation case Browder v. Gayle.
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E.
Mary Elizabeth Horner
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Christopher Rothko
ⓘ
linked to:
Kate Rothko
Kate Rothko ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of Mark Rothko’s two children
ⓘ
being the wife of Mark Rothko ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Mark Rothko ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mark Rothko
ⓘ
Mary Alice Beistle ⓘ |
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 Alice Beistle Description of subject: Mary Alice Beistle was the wife of abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko and the mother of his two children.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.