Mary White Smith
E486587
Mary White Smith was the wife of American Baptist minister and poet Samuel Francis Smith, best known as the author of the patriotic song "My Country, ’Tis of Thee."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary White Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5014736 — 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 White Smith Context triple: [Samuel Francis Smith, spouse, Mary White Smith]
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A.
Mary White Morris
Mary White Morris was an American socialite and prominent figure in early U.S. political society, known for her marriage to Founding Father and financier Robert Morris.
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B.
Frances Willard
Frances Willard was a prominent 19th-century American educator, suffragist, and social reformer who led the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and became a key figure in the fight for women’s rights and social purity.
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C.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Matilda Joslyn Gage was a 19th-century American suffragist, abolitionist, and writer known for her radical advocacy for women's rights and separation of church and state.
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D.
Lydia Gardner Happer
Lydia Gardner Happer was the wife of U.S. Army General Maxwell D. Taylor, a prominent military leader and diplomat of the mid-20th century.
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E.
Alice Howe Gibbens
Alice Howe Gibbens was an American schoolteacher and social reformer best known as the wife and intellectual partner of philosopher and psychologist William James.
- 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 White Smith Target entity description: Mary White Smith was the wife of American Baptist minister and poet Samuel Francis Smith, best known as the author of the patriotic song "My Country, ’Tis of Thee."
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A.
Mary White Morris
Mary White Morris was an American socialite and prominent figure in early U.S. political society, known for her marriage to Founding Father and financier Robert Morris.
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B.
Frances Willard
Frances Willard was a prominent 19th-century American educator, suffragist, and social reformer who led the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and became a key figure in the fight for women’s rights and social purity.
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C.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Matilda Joslyn Gage was a 19th-century American suffragist, abolitionist, and writer known for her radical advocacy for women's rights and separation of church and state.
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D.
Lydia Gardner Happer
Lydia Gardner Happer was the wife of U.S. Army General Maxwell D. Taylor, a prominent military leader and diplomat of the mid-20th century.
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E.
Alice Howe Gibbens
Alice Howe Gibbens was an American schoolteacher and social reformer best known as the wife and intellectual partner of philosopher and psychologist William James.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Mary White Smith ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Samuel Francis Smith ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist (inferred, not certain) ⓘ |
| spouse | Samuel Francis Smith ⓘ |
| spouseNotableWork |
My Country, ’Tis of Thee
ⓘ
linked to:
My Country, 'Tis of Thee
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| spouseOccupation |
Baptist minister
ⓘ
poet ⓘ |
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 White Smith Description of subject: Mary White Smith was the wife of American Baptist minister and poet Samuel Francis Smith, best known as the author of the patriotic song "My Country, ’Tis of Thee."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.