Maria Cook Webb
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Maria Cook Webb was the mother of Lucy Webb Hayes, the First Lady of the United States and wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maria Cook Webb canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4989911 — 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 Cook Webb Context triple: [Lucy Webb Hayes, mother, Maria Cook Webb]
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A.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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B.
Muriel Buck Humphrey
Muriel Buck Humphrey was an American political figure who briefly served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and was the widow of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
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C.
Gertrude Mercer McCurdy
Gertrude Mercer McCurdy was the wife of American lawyer and financier Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who was a key early supporter and first president of the Bell Telephone Company.
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D.
Marian Walker Brown
Marian Walker Brown was the wife of U.S. Senator Prentiss M. Brown and a member of a prominent Michigan political family in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
- 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 Cook Webb Target entity description: Maria Cook Webb was the mother of Lucy Webb Hayes, the First Lady of the United States and wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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A.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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B.
Muriel Buck Humphrey
Muriel Buck Humphrey was an American political figure who briefly served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and was the widow of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
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C.
Gertrude Mercer McCurdy
Gertrude Mercer McCurdy was the wife of American lawyer and financier Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who was a key early supporter and first president of the Bell Telephone Company.
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D.
Marian Walker Brown
Marian Walker Brown was the wife of U.S. Senator Prentiss M. Brown and a member of a prominent Michigan political family in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
First Lady of the United States
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President of the United States ⓘ human ⓘ |
| familyName | Webb ⓘ |
| givenName | Maria ⓘ |
| hasChild | Lucy Webb Hayes ⓘ |
| motherOf | Lucy Webb Hayes ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Rutherford B. Hayes ⓘ |
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 Cook Webb Description of subject: Maria Cook Webb was the mother of Lucy Webb Hayes, the First Lady of the United States and wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.