Mary Ellen Lancaster
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Mary Ellen Lancaster was the mother of the infamous American bank robber John Dillinger.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Ellen Lancaster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5359244 — 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 Ellen Lancaster Context triple: [John Dillinger, parent, Mary Ellen Lancaster]
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A.
Mary Ellen
Mary Ellen is a feminine given name of English origin, often used as a compound of "Mary" and "Ellen."
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B.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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C.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Mary Ann Bertles
Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
- 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 Ellen Lancaster Target entity description: Mary Ellen Lancaster was the mother of the infamous American bank robber John Dillinger.
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A.
Mary Ellen
Mary Ellen is a feminine given name of English origin, often used as a compound of "Mary" and "Ellen."
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B.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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C.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Mary Ann Bertles
Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | John Dillinger ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of American bank robber John Dillinger ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 Ellen Lancaster Description of subject: Mary Ellen Lancaster was the mother of the infamous American bank robber John Dillinger.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.