Mary Hirsch
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Mary Hirsch was the wife of acclaimed American actor Lee J. Cobb, known for his powerful stage and screen performances in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Hirsch canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9818873 — 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 Hirsch Context triple: [Lee J. Cobb, spouse, Mary Hirsch]
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A.
Martha Roth
Martha Roth is the wife of American actor and clown Bill Irwin.
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B.
Margaret Shenberg
Margaret Shenberg was the first wife of influential Hollywood film producer and studio executive Louis B. Mayer.
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C.
Martha Schmellinsky
Martha Schmellinsky was the wife of East German leader Walter Ulbricht and thus part of the political elite of the German Democratic Republic.
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D.
June Hovick
June Hovick, better known as June Havoc, was an American actress, dancer, and writer whose early life as a child vaudeville performer inspired the musical "Gypsy."
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E.
Dorothy Herzka
Dorothy Herzka is an American art professional best known as the wife and longtime partner of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, with whom she was deeply involved in the contemporary art world.
- 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 Hirsch Target entity description: Mary Hirsch was the wife of acclaimed American actor Lee J. Cobb, known for his powerful stage and screen performances in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Martha Roth
Martha Roth is the wife of American actor and clown Bill Irwin.
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B.
Margaret Shenberg
Margaret Shenberg was the first wife of influential Hollywood film producer and studio executive Louis B. Mayer.
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C.
Martha Schmellinsky
Martha Schmellinsky was the wife of East German leader Walter Ulbricht and thus part of the political elite of the German Democratic Republic.
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D.
June Hovick
June Hovick, better known as June Havoc, was an American actress, dancer, and writer whose early life as a child vaudeville performer inspired the musical "Gypsy."
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E.
Dorothy Herzka
Dorothy Herzka is an American art professional best known as the wife and longtime partner of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, with whom she was deeply involved in the contemporary art world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of American actor Lee J. Cobb
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powerful screen performances ⓘ powerful stage performances ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lee J. Cobb
ⓘ
Mary Hirsch ⓘ |
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 Hirsch Description of subject: Mary Hirsch was the wife of acclaimed American actor Lee J. Cobb, known for his powerful stage and screen performances in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mary Hirsch