Mary Stead
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Mary Stead was the wife of American statesman and diplomat Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a prominent figure in early United States history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Stead canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10521972 — 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 Stead Context triple: [Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, spouse, Mary Stead]
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A.
Mary Ellis
Mary Ellis was a British actress known for her work on stage and screen in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Maria Bicknell
Maria Bicknell was the wife of English Romantic landscape painter John Constable and a member of a well-connected Suffolk family in early 19th-century England.
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C.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was the wife of American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution William Samuel Johnson.
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D.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was a social reformer and nurse best known as a co-founder of New York City's pioneering Henry Street Settlement, which provided social services and healthcare to impoverished communities.
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E.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate 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 Stead Target entity description: Mary Stead was the wife of American statesman and diplomat Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a prominent figure in early United States history.
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A.
Mary Ellis
Mary Ellis was a British actress known for her work on stage and screen in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Maria Bicknell
Maria Bicknell was the wife of English Romantic landscape painter John Constable and a member of a well-connected Suffolk family in early 19th-century England.
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C.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was a social reformer and nurse best known as a co-founder of New York City's pioneering Henry Street Settlement, which provided social services and healthcare to impoverished communities.
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D.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was the wife of American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution William Samuel Johnson.
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E.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American diplomat
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American statesman ⓘ historical figure ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Pinckney family ⓘ |
| residence |
Charleston, South Carolina
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linked to:
Charleston
South Carolina ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
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Mary Stead ⓘ |
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 Stead Description of subject: Mary Stead was the wife of American statesman and diplomat Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a prominent figure in early United States history.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mary Stead