Emily McKay Beal
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Emily McKay Beal was the second wife of librarian and Dewey Decimal System creator Melvil Dewey, known primarily through her association with his later life and career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emily McKay Beal canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3900735 — 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: Emily McKay Beal Context triple: [Melvil Dewey, spouse, Emily McKay Beal]
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A.
Grace Gummer
Grace Gummer is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including roles in series like "Mr. Robot" and "The Newsroom."
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B.
Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine Stowe is an American actress best known for her film roles in the 1990s, including "The Last of the Mohicans" and "12 Monkeys," and later for her acclaimed television work.
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C.
Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca De Mornay is an American actress best known for her roles in films such as "Risky Business," "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle," and numerous other thrillers and dramas.
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D.
Bella Thornton
Bella Thornton is the daughter of American actor, filmmaker, and musician Billy Bob Thornton.
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E.
Madelyn Pugh
Madelyn Pugh was an American television writer best known as one of the pioneering female comedy writers in Hollywood and a key creative force behind classic sitcoms.
- 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: Emily McKay Beal Target entity description: Emily McKay Beal was the second wife of librarian and Dewey Decimal System creator Melvil Dewey, known primarily through her association with his later life and career.
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A.
Grace Gummer
Grace Gummer is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including roles in series like "Mr. Robot" and "The Newsroom."
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B.
Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine Stowe is an American actress best known for her film roles in the 1990s, including "The Last of the Mohicans" and "12 Monkeys," and later for her acclaimed television work.
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C.
Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca De Mornay is an American actress best known for her roles in films such as "Risky Business," "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle," and numerous other thrillers and dramas.
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D.
Bella Thornton
Bella Thornton is the daughter of American actor, filmmaker, and musician Billy Bob Thornton.
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E.
Madelyn Pugh
Madelyn Pugh was an American television writer best known as one of the pioneering female comedy writers in Hollywood and a key creative force behind classic sitcoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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spouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dewey Decimal Classification
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Melvil Dewey ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Beal ⓘ |
| givenName | Emily ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Emily McKay Beal ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the later career of Melvil Dewey
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association with the later life of Melvil Dewey ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | second wife of Melvil Dewey ⓘ |
| spouse | Melvil Dewey ⓘ |
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: Emily McKay Beal Description of subject: Emily McKay Beal was the second wife of librarian and Dewey Decimal System creator Melvil Dewey, known primarily through her association with his later life and career.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.