Maria Ward Kirkpatrick Custer
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Maria Ward Kirkpatrick Custer was the mother of U.S. Army officer George Armstrong Custer and a 19th-century American woman whose family background helped shape his early life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maria Ward Kirkpatrick Custer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5655974 — 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: Maria Ward Kirkpatrick Custer Context triple: [George Armstrong Custer, mother, Maria Ward Kirkpatrick Custer]
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Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Elizabeth Bacon Custer was an American author and public figure who devoted much of her life to defending and shaping the legacy of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer, after his death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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B.
Bathsheba Sherman
Bathsheba Sherman is the malevolent witch and primary supernatural antagonist haunting the Perron family in the horror film "The Conjuring."
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C.
Susan Maria Delano
Susan Maria Delano was a member of the prominent Delano family of New York, related to Sara Ann Delano and thus part of the extended family circle of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Jessie Little Doe Baird
Jessie Little Doe Baird is a Wampanoag linguist and language activist known for leading the revival of the Wôpanâak language and efforts to restore it as a living, spoken language in her community.
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E.
Martha Jane Kane
Martha Jane Kane was the wife of legendary Los Angeles Lakers guard and NBA logo inspiration Jerry West.
- 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: Maria Ward Kirkpatrick Custer Target entity description: Maria Ward Kirkpatrick Custer was the mother of U.S. Army officer George Armstrong Custer and a 19th-century American woman whose family background helped shape his early life.
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A.
Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Elizabeth Bacon Custer was an American author and public figure who devoted much of her life to defending and shaping the legacy of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer, after his death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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B.
Bathsheba Sherman
Bathsheba Sherman is the malevolent witch and primary supernatural antagonist haunting the Perron family in the horror film "The Conjuring."
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C.
Susan Maria Delano
Susan Maria Delano was a member of the prominent Delano family of New York, related to Sara Ann Delano and thus part of the extended family circle of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Jessie Little Doe Baird
Jessie Little Doe Baird is a Wampanoag linguist and language activist known for leading the revival of the Wôpanâak language and efforts to restore it as a living, spoken language in her community.
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E.
Martha Jane Kane
Martha Jane Kane was the wife of legendary Los Angeles Lakers guard and NBA logo inspiration Jerry West.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Custer
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Kirkpatrick ⓘ |
| givenName |
Kirkpatrick
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Maria ⓘ Ward ⓘ |
| hasChild | George Armstrong Custer ⓘ |
| hasRelative | George Armstrong Custer ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of U.S. Army officer George Armstrong Custer ⓘ |
| notableRole | mother of George Armstrong Custer ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Maria Ward Kirkpatrick Custer Description of subject: Maria Ward Kirkpatrick Custer was the mother of U.S. Army officer George Armstrong Custer and a 19th-century American woman whose family background helped shape his early life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.