Mary Davenport
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Mary Davenport was the wife of acclaimed American screenwriter Waldo Salt, known for her connection to his life and career in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Davenport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10721694 — 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 Davenport Context triple: [Waldo Salt, spouse, Mary Davenport]
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A.
Mary Bowne
Mary Bowne was a colonial-era New Yorker known primarily as the daughter of Quaker pioneer and religious freedom advocate John Bowne.
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B.
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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C.
Harriet Putnam
Harriet Putnam is a notable member of the Putnam family, recognized for her significance within this historically prominent lineage.
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D.
Bethiah Thacher
Bethiah Thacher was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as the wife of Mayflower descendant Jabez Howland.
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E.
Fannie Hillsmith
Fannie Hillsmith was an American painter associated with Cubism who helped shape mid-20th-century modern art and co-founded the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
- 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 Davenport Target entity description: Mary Davenport was the wife of acclaimed American screenwriter Waldo Salt, known for her connection to his life and career in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
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A.
Mary Bowne
Mary Bowne was a colonial-era New Yorker known primarily as the daughter of Quaker pioneer and religious freedom advocate John Bowne.
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B.
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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C.
Harriet Putnam
Harriet Putnam is a notable member of the Putnam family, recognized for her significance within this historically prominent lineage.
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D.
Bethiah Thacher
Bethiah Thacher was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as the wife of Mayflower descendant Jabez Howland.
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E.
Fannie Hillsmith
Fannie Hillsmith was an American painter associated with Cubism who helped shape mid-20th-century modern art and co-founded the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film industry ⓘ |
| notableFor | connection to the life and career of screenwriter Waldo Salt ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Hollywood ⓘ |
| spouse | Waldo Salt ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-20th 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 Davenport Description of subject: Mary Davenport was the wife of acclaimed American screenwriter Waldo Salt, known for her connection to his life and career in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.