Sarah Marion McElroy
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Sarah Marion McElroy was the first wife of Scottish bacteriologist and penicillin discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Marion McElroy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4501820 — 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: Sarah Marion McElroy Context triple: [Alexander Fleming, spouse, Sarah Marion McElroy]
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A.
Catherine Devine McConnell
Catherine Devine McConnell was the first wife of American actor and author Sterling Hayden, with whom she had several children before their eventual divorce.
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B.
Sarah McArthur
Sarah McArthur is a film producer best known for serving as an executive producer on Pixar’s animated feature "Toy Story 2."
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C.
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Elizabeth McLaughlin is an American actress known for her roles in television series such as the psychological drama "Hand of God."
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D.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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E.
Mary Connelly
Mary Connelly is a television producer best known for her work as an executive producer on major daytime talk shows, including The Jennifer Hudson Show.
- 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: Sarah Marion McElroy Target entity description: Sarah Marion McElroy was the first wife of Scottish bacteriologist and penicillin discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming.
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A.
Catherine Devine McConnell
Catherine Devine McConnell was the first wife of American actor and author Sterling Hayden, with whom she had several children before their eventual divorce.
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B.
Sarah McArthur
Sarah McArthur is a film producer best known for serving as an executive producer on Pixar’s animated feature "Toy Story 2."
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C.
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Elizabeth McLaughlin is an American actress known for her roles in television series such as the psychological drama "Hand of God."
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D.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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E.
Mary Connelly
Mary Connelly is a television producer best known for her work as an executive producer on major daytime talk shows, including The Jennifer Hudson Show.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bacteriologist
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of Sir Alexander Fleming
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discovery of penicillin ⓘ |
| positionHeld | first wife of Alexander Fleming ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alexander Fleming
ⓘ
Sarah Marion McElroy ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor | discovery of penicillin ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | bacteriologist ⓘ |
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: Sarah Marion McElroy Description of subject: Sarah Marion McElroy was the first wife of Scottish bacteriologist and penicillin discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sarah Marion McElroy