Mildred Williams
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Mildred Williams was the first wife of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, with whom she was married in the late 1940s and 1950s before their divorce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mildred Williams canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8500931 — 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: Mildred Williams Context triple: [Hugh Hefner, spouse, Mildred Williams]
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A.
Mildred Peacock
Mildred Peacock is the resilient African American mother and protagonist of Terry McMillan’s novel "Mama," who struggles to raise her children and find independence amid poverty and hardship.
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B.
Mildred
Mildred is a feminine given name of English origin that became especially popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Mildred Brown
Mildred Brown was a prominent African American journalist and civil rights advocate, best known as the longtime publisher of the Omaha Star newspaper.
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D.
Mildred Vanderhoff
Mildred Vanderhoff was the wife of famed American bandleader and orchestral director Paul Whiteman.
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E.
Mildred Harris
Mildred Harris was an American silent film actress best known for her early Hollywood career and her brief marriage to Charlie Chaplin.
- 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: Mildred Williams Target entity description: Mildred Williams was the first wife of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, with whom she was married in the late 1940s and 1950s before their divorce.
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A.
Mildred Peacock
Mildred Peacock is the resilient African American mother and protagonist of Terry McMillan’s novel "Mama," who struggles to raise her children and find independence amid poverty and hardship.
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B.
Mildred
Mildred is a feminine given name of English origin that became especially popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Mildred Brown
Mildred Brown was a prominent African American journalist and civil rights advocate, best known as the longtime publisher of the Omaha Star newspaper.
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D.
Mildred Vanderhoff
Mildred Vanderhoff was the wife of famed American bandleader and orchestral director Paul Whiteman.
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E.
Mildred Harris
Mildred Harris was an American silent film actress best known for her early Hollywood career and her brief marriage to Charlie Chaplin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Playboy magazine
ⓘ
linked to:
Playboy
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1950s ⓘ |
| marriageStart | late 1940s ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Hugh Hefner ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Hugh Hefner ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of Hugh Hefner ⓘ |
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: Mildred Williams Description of subject: Mildred Williams was the first wife of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, with whom she was married in the late 1940s and 1950s before their divorce.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.