Herbert A. May
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Herbert A. May was an American businessman and social figure best known as one of the husbands of heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herbert A. May canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3355834 — 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: Herbert A. May Context triple: [Marjorie Merriweather Post, spouse, Herbert A. May]
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A.
Herbert L. Anderson
Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
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B.
Herbert F. York
Herbert F. York was an American physicist and arms control advocate who became the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a prominent advisor on nuclear policy and disarmament.
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C.
Ralph E. Ogden
Ralph E. Ogden was an American businessman and arts patron best known for establishing the Storm King Art Center, one of the world’s leading outdoor sculpture parks.
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D.
Edwin E. Witte
Edwin E. Witte was an American economist and civil servant known as the “father of Social Security” for his central role in drafting the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935.
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E.
Charles B. Eddy
Charles B. Eddy was an American businessman and railroad promoter influential in the development of southeastern New Mexico, for whom Eddy County was named.
- 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: Herbert A. May Target entity description: Herbert A. May was an American businessman and social figure best known as one of the husbands of heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post.
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A.
Herbert L. Anderson
Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
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B.
Herbert F. York
Herbert F. York was an American physicist and arms control advocate who became the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a prominent advisor on nuclear policy and disarmament.
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C.
Ralph E. Ogden
Ralph E. Ogden was an American businessman and arts patron best known for establishing the Storm King Art Center, one of the world’s leading outdoor sculpture parks.
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D.
Edwin E. Witte
Edwin E. Witte was an American economist and civil servant known as the “father of Social Security” for his central role in drafting the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935.
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E.
Charles B. Eddy
Charles B. Eddy was an American businessman and railroad promoter influential in the development of southeastern New Mexico, for whom Eddy County was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | May ⓘ |
| givenName | Herbert ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced from Marjorie Merriweather Post ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Marjorie Merriweather Post ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialStatus | member of high society ⓘ |
| spouse | Marjorie Merriweather Post ⓘ |
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: Herbert A. May Description of subject: Herbert A. May was an American businessman and social figure best known as one of the husbands of heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.