Mary Stilwell Edison
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Mary Stilwell Edison was the first wife of inventor Thomas Edison and the mother of three of his children, including Marion Estelle Edison.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Stilwell Edison canonical | 14 |
| Marion Estelle Edison | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6888516 — 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 Stilwell Edison Context triple: [Marion Estelle Edison, mother, Mary Stilwell Edison]
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Marion Estelle Edison
Marion Estelle Edison was the daughter of inventor Thomas Edison and his first wife, Mary Stilwell.
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Mina Miller Edison
Mina Miller Edison was an American philanthropist and the second wife of inventor Thomas Edison, known for her social activism and management of the Edison household and estate.
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Margaret Livingston Cady
Margaret Livingston Cady was an American woman of the early 19th century best known as the mother of leading suffragist and women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Josephine Clay Ford
Josephine Clay Ford was an American heiress and philanthropist from the prominent Ford family, known for her charitable contributions to arts and education.
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E.
Helen Parkhurst
Helen Parkhurst was an American educator and reformer best known for creating the Dalton Plan, an influential progressive education model that inspired schools worldwide.
- 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 Stilwell Edison Target entity description: Mary Stilwell Edison was the first wife of inventor Thomas Edison and the mother of three of his children, including Marion Estelle Edison.
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A.
Marion Estelle Edison
Marion Estelle Edison was the daughter of inventor Thomas Edison and his first wife, Mary Stilwell.
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B.
Mina Miller Edison
Mina Miller Edison was an American philanthropist and the second wife of inventor Thomas Edison, known for her social activism and management of the Edison household and estate.
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C.
Margaret Livingston Cady
Margaret Livingston Cady was an American woman of the early 19th century best known as the mother of leading suffragist and women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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D.
Josephine Clay Ford
Josephine Clay Ford was an American heiress and philanthropist from the prominent Ford family, known for her charitable contributions to arts and education.
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E.
Helen Parkhurst
Helen Parkhurst was an American educator and reformer best known for creating the Dalton Plan, an influential progressive education model that inspired schools worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Stilwell Edison Description of subject: Mary Stilwell Edison was the first wife of inventor Thomas Edison and the mother of three of his children, including Marion Estelle Edison.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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