Mary Fish
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Mary Fish was the wife of Joel Aldrich Matteson, who served as the 10th governor of Illinois in the mid-19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Fish canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8965516 — 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 Fish Context triple: [Joel Aldrich Matteson, spouse, Mary Fish]
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A.
Julia Floyd
Julia Floyd was the wife of British statesman Sir Robert Peel, serving as a prominent Victorian-era political hostess and member of the English gentry.
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B.
Martha Hunt
Martha Hunt is an American fashion model best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, including serving as a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
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C.
Mary Lamson
Mary Lamson was the wife of Edwin M. Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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E.
Ellen Hutchison
Ellen Hutchison was the wife of Edwin M. Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln.
- 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 Fish Target entity description: Mary Fish was the wife of Joel Aldrich Matteson, who served as the 10th governor of Illinois in the mid-19th century.
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A.
Julia Floyd
Julia Floyd was the wife of British statesman Sir Robert Peel, serving as a prominent Victorian-era political hostess and member of the English gentry.
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B.
Martha Hunt
Martha Hunt is an American fashion model best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, including serving as a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
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C.
Mary Lamson
Mary Lamson was the wife of Edwin M. Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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E.
Ellen Hutchison
Ellen Hutchison was the wife of Edwin M. Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Joel Aldrich Matteson ⓘ |
| positionHeld | 10th Governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| spouse |
Joel Aldrich Matteson
ⓘ
Mary Fish ⓘ |
| spouseOfGovernor | Governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| 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 Fish Description of subject: Mary Fish was the wife of Joel Aldrich Matteson, who served as the 10th governor of Illinois in the mid-19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.