Mary White
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Mary White was the mother of Susanna Wesley and thus the maternal grandmother of John and Charles Wesley, key figures in the founding of Methodism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary White canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6457941 — 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 Context triple: [Susanna Wesley, mother, Mary White]
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A.
Mary White
Mary White was an influential religious and educational leader who played a key role in establishing Olivet Nazarene University, a Christian liberal arts institution affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene.
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B.
Martha Todd White
Martha Todd White was a member of the Todd family of Kentucky and a sister of Emilie Todd Helm, making her one of the siblings of Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
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D.
Josephine Wiggs
Josephine Wiggs is an English musician and bassist best known for her work with the alternative rock band The Breeders.
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E.
Anna Moore
Anna Moore is the virtuous, long-suffering heroine of the silent film "Way Down East," whose trials and resilience drive the story’s emotional core.
- 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 Target entity description: Mary White was the mother of Susanna Wesley and thus the maternal grandmother of John and Charles Wesley, key figures in the founding of Methodism.
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A.
Mary White
Mary White was an influential religious and educational leader who played a key role in establishing Olivet Nazarene University, a Christian liberal arts institution affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene.
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B.
Martha Todd White
Martha Todd White was a member of the Todd family of Kentucky and a sister of Emilie Todd Helm, making her one of the siblings of Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
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D.
Josephine Wiggs
Josephine Wiggs is an English musician and bassist best known for her work with the alternative rock band The Breeders.
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E.
Anna Moore
Anna Moore is the virtuous, long-suffering heroine of the silent film "Way Down East," whose trials and resilience drive the story’s emotional core.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| child | Susanna Wesley ⓘ |
| grandchild |
Charles Wesley
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John Wesley ⓘ |
| grandmother |
Mary White
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Mary White ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the maternal grandmother of Charles Wesley
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being the maternal grandmother of John Wesley ⓘ being the mother of Susanna Wesley ⓘ |
| maternalGrandmother |
Mary White
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Mary White ⓘ |
| mother | Mary White ⓘ |
| name | Mary White ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Charles Wesley
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John Wesley ⓘ Susanna Wesley ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | ancestor of key figures in the founding of Methodism ⓘ |
| 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 White Description of subject: Mary White was the mother of Susanna Wesley and thus the maternal grandmother of John and Charles Wesley, key figures in the founding of Methodism.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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