Mary A. Dana
E525996
Mary A. Dana was the wife of Henry Markham, who served as the 18th governor of California in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary A. Dana canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3264616 — 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 A. Dana Context triple: [Henry Markham, spouse, Mary A. Dana]
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A.
Louisa E. Masterson
Louisa E. Masterson was a family member of famed Old West lawman and gambler Bat Masterson, known primarily through her relation to him.
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B.
Sarah H. Joslyn
Sarah H. Joslyn was a prominent Omaha philanthropist whose generosity and patronage of the arts led to the creation of the Joslyn Art Museum.
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C.
Marie H. Reed
Marie H. Reed was a community leader and educator in Washington, D.C., recognized for her contributions to local education and civic life.
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D.
Caroline Dana Blymyer
Caroline Dana Blymyer was the wife of Charles G. Dawes, the 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize–winning statesman.
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E.
Mary M. Baker
Mary M. Baker is an individual known primarily as an alternate name or identity for Mary Morse Baker.
- 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 A. Dana Target entity description: Mary A. Dana was the wife of Henry Markham, who served as the 18th governor of California in the late 19th century.
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A.
Louisa E. Masterson
Louisa E. Masterson was a family member of famed Old West lawman and gambler Bat Masterson, known primarily through her relation to him.
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B.
Sarah H. Joslyn
Sarah H. Joslyn was a prominent Omaha philanthropist whose generosity and patronage of the arts led to the creation of the Joslyn Art Museum.
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C.
Marie H. Reed
Marie H. Reed was a community leader and educator in Washington, D.C., recognized for her contributions to local education and civic life.
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D.
Caroline Dana Blymyer
Caroline Dana Blymyer was the wife of Charles G. Dawes, the 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize–winning statesman.
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E.
Mary M. Baker
Mary M. Baker is an individual known primarily as an alternate name or identity for Mary Morse Baker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| notableFor | being the wife of Henry Markham ⓘ |
| officeStartCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| officeStartPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 18 ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of California ⓘ |
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| spouse |
Henry Markham
ⓘ
Mary A. Dana ⓘ |
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 A. Dana Description of subject: Mary A. Dana was the wife of Henry Markham, who served as the 18th governor of California in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mary A. Dana