Mary Ann Porter Herold
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Mary Ann Porter Herold was the mother of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Ann Porter Herold canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6794964 — 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 Ann Porter Herold Context triple: [David Edgar Herold, parent, Mary Ann Porter Herold]
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A.
Mary Alice Herold
Mary Alice Herold is known primarily as the sister of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Anna Surratt
Anna Surratt was the daughter of Lincoln assassination conspirator Mary Surratt, known for her efforts to plead for her mother's life before the execution.
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C.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
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D.
John Harrison Surratt Sr.
John Harrison Surratt Sr. was an American innkeeper and Confederate sympathizer whose family, including his wife Mary Surratt and son John Jr., became deeply entangled in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Clementina Shorter
Clementina Shorter was the wife of British journalist and literary critic Clement Shorter, associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century English literary scene.
- 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 Ann Porter Herold Target entity description: Mary Ann Porter Herold was the mother of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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A.
Mary Alice Herold
Mary Alice Herold is known primarily as the sister of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Anna Surratt
Anna Surratt was the daughter of Lincoln assassination conspirator Mary Surratt, known for her efforts to plead for her mother's life before the execution.
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C.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
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D.
John Harrison Surratt Sr.
John Harrison Surratt Sr. was an American innkeeper and Confederate sympathizer whose family, including his wife Mary Surratt and son John Jr., became deeply entangled in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Clementina Shorter
Clementina Shorter was the wife of British journalist and literary critic Clement Shorter, associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century English literary scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName |
Herold
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Porter ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Mary Ann ⓘ |
| motherOf | David Herold ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | David Herold ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Lincoln assassination conspirator David Herold ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C. (in the 19th century)
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington, D.C.
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| 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: Mary Ann Porter Herold Description of subject: Mary Ann Porter Herold was the mother of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.