Mary Coles Payne
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Mary Coles Payne was an 18th-century Virginian woman best known as the mother of Dolley Madison, the influential First Lady of the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Coles Payne canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2832215 — 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 Coles Payne Context triple: [Dolley Madison, mother, Mary Coles Payne]
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A.
Sarah Cooper Hewitt
Sarah Cooper Hewitt was a philanthropist and art patron who, along with her sisters, played a key role in establishing what became the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.
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B.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
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C.
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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D.
Ann Pamela Cunningham
Ann Pamela Cunningham was a 19th-century American preservationist best known for leading the effort to save George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and founding the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association.
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E.
Maria Bartow Cole
Maria Bartow Cole was the wife of prominent American landscape painter Thomas Cole and a member of the influential Bartow family of New York.
- 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 Coles Payne Target entity description: Mary Coles Payne was an 18th-century Virginian woman best known as the mother of Dolley Madison, the influential First Lady of the United States.
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A.
Sarah Cooper Hewitt
Sarah Cooper Hewitt was a philanthropist and art patron who, along with her sisters, played a key role in establishing what became the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.
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B.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
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C.
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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D.
Ann Pamela Cunningham
Ann Pamela Cunningham was a 19th-century American preservationist best known for leading the effort to save George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and founding the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association.
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E.
Maria Bartow Cole
Maria Bartow Cole was the wife of prominent American landscape painter Thomas Cole and a member of the influential Bartow family of New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century Virginian woman
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First Lady of the United States ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child | Dolley Madison ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American colonists in Virginia ⓘ |
| familyName |
Coles
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Payne ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| influenced | early life of Dolley Madison ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Coles Payne ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of Dolley Madison
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influential role as First Lady of the United States ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Virginia ⓘ |
| positionInSociety | member of Virginian planter society ⓘ |
| relative | Dolley Madison ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residenceDuringLifetime |
British America
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United States after American Revolution ⓘ
linked to:
Early Republic of the United States
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
18th century
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early 19th century ⓘ |
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 Coles Payne Description of subject: Mary Coles Payne was an 18th-century Virginian woman best known as the mother of Dolley Madison, the influential First Lady of the United States.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.