Mary Yates
E289951
Mary Yates is best known as the wife of prominent American journalist and longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Yates canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2692817 — 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 Yates Context triple: [Mike Wallace, spouse, Mary Yates]
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A.
Janet McKenzie Hill
Janet McKenzie Hill was an influential American cookbook author and early 20th-century culinary educator known for popularizing scientific home cooking and baking.
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B.
Barbara Carr
Barbara Carr is a music industry executive and longtime manager of Bruce Springsteen who co-produced his acclaimed stage production "Springsteen on Broadway."
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C.
Ruth Cunningham
Ruth Cunningham was the wife of American colonial lawyer and patriot James Otis Jr., a prominent figure in the early resistance to British rule.
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D.
Patricia Haines
Patricia Haines was a British actress known for her television and film roles in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Virginia Thomas
Virginia Thomas is an American conservative activist and attorney best known as the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and for her involvement in right-wing political causes.
- 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 Yates Target entity description: Mary Yates is best known as the wife of prominent American journalist and longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace.
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A.
Janet McKenzie Hill
Janet McKenzie Hill was an influential American cookbook author and early 20th-century culinary educator known for popularizing scientific home cooking and baking.
-
B.
Barbara Carr
Barbara Carr is a music industry executive and longtime manager of Bruce Springsteen who co-produced his acclaimed stage production "Springsteen on Broadway."
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C.
Ruth Cunningham
Ruth Cunningham was the wife of American colonial lawyer and patriot James Otis Jr., a prominent figure in the early resistance to British rule.
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D.
Patricia Haines
Patricia Haines was a British actress known for her television and film roles in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Virginia Thomas
Virginia Thomas is an American conservative activist and attorney best known as the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and for her involvement in right-wing political causes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | 60 Minutes ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of American journalist Mike Wallace ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
television correspondent ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Yates
ⓘ
Mike Wallace ⓘ |
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 Yates Description of subject: Mary Yates is best known as the wife of prominent American journalist and longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.