Mary McVicker Booth
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Mary McVicker Booth was a 19th-century American actress best known for her stage career and for being the second wife of renowned tragedian Edwin Booth.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary McVicker Booth canonical | 3 |
| Mary Devlin Booth | 1 |
| Mary McVickers Booth | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T170830 — 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 McVicker Booth Context triple: [Edwin Booth, spouse, Mary McVicker Booth]
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A.
Margaret Gates Wallace
Margaret Gates Wallace was the mother of Bess Truman, the First Lady of the United States during Harry S. Truman’s presidency.
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B.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
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C.
Alice C. Tyler
Alice C. Tyler was a philanthropist and environmental advocate whose legacy is honored through the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
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D.
Lou Henry Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover was an American First Lady, geologist, and humanitarian known for her advocacy of women's education and her active public role during Herbert Hoover's presidency.
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E.
Susan Packard Orr
Susan Packard Orr is an American philanthropist and former technology executive known for her leadership roles in the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and on the board of Hewlett-Packard.
- 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 McVicker Booth Target entity description: Mary McVicker Booth was a 19th-century American actress best known for her stage career and for being the second wife of renowned tragedian Edwin Booth.
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A.
Margaret Gates Wallace
Margaret Gates Wallace was the mother of Bess Truman, the First Lady of the United States during Harry S. Truman’s presidency.
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B.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
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C.
Alice C. Tyler
Alice C. Tyler was a philanthropist and environmental advocate whose legacy is honored through the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
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D.
Lou Henry Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover was an American First Lady, geologist, and humanitarian known for her advocacy of women's education and her active public role during Herbert Hoover's presidency.
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E.
Susan Packard Orr
Susan Packard Orr is an American philanthropist and former technology executive known for her leadership roles in the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and on the board of Hewlett-Packard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | Victorian era ⓘ |
| familyName |
Booth
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McVicker ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
performing arts
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theatre ⓘ |
| genre | tragedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
19th-century American stage career
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being the second wife of Edwin Booth ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Edwin Booth ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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stage actress ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
John Wilkes Booth
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Junius Brutus Booth ⓘ |
| spouse | Edwin Booth ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | second wife of Edwin Booth ⓘ |
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 McVicker Booth Description of subject: Mary McVicker Booth was a 19th-century American actress best known for her stage career and for being the second wife of renowned tragedian Edwin Booth.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mary McVicker Booth
linked to: Mary McVicker Booth