Dorothy Prentiss MacDonald
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Dorothy Prentiss MacDonald was the wife of American novelist John D. MacDonald and a significant partner in his personal and professional life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorothy Prentiss MacDonald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10808893 — 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: Dorothy Prentiss MacDonald Context triple: [John D. MacDonald, spouse, Dorothy Prentiss MacDonald]
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A.
Dorothy Ely
Dorothy Ely was the wife of influential British analytic philosopher G. E. Moore.
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B.
Dorothy Marie Marsh
Dorothy Marie Marsh, better known as Dottie West, was an influential American country music singer-songwriter who helped shape the Nashville sound from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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C.
Minnie Machen Sayre
Minnie Machen Sayre was an American socialite from Montgomery, Alabama, best known as the mother of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.
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D.
Dorothy Boyd
Dorothy Boyd is a compassionate single mother and accountant who becomes Jerry Maguire’s loyal partner in both his fledgling sports management venture and his personal journey toward genuine love and integrity.
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E.
Gladys McConnell
Gladys McConnell was an American film actress of the silent and early sound era, known for her roles in Westerns and adventure serials.
- 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: Dorothy Prentiss MacDonald Target entity description: Dorothy Prentiss MacDonald was the wife of American novelist John D. MacDonald and a significant partner in his personal and professional life.
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A.
Dorothy Ely
Dorothy Ely was the wife of influential British analytic philosopher G. E. Moore.
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B.
Dorothy Marie Marsh
Dorothy Marie Marsh, better known as Dottie West, was an influential American country music singer-songwriter who helped shape the Nashville sound from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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C.
Minnie Machen Sayre
Minnie Machen Sayre was an American socialite from Montgomery, Alabama, best known as the mother of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.
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D.
Dorothy Boyd
Dorothy Boyd is a compassionate single mother and accountant who becomes Jerry Maguire’s loyal partner in both his fledgling sports management venture and his personal journey toward genuine love and integrity.
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E.
Gladys McConnell
Gladys McConnell was an American film actress of the silent and early sound era, known for her roles in Westerns and adventure serials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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human ⓘ spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notableFor |
being a significant partner in the personal life of John D. MacDonald
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being a significant partner in the professional life of John D. MacDonald ⓘ being the wife of American novelist John D. MacDonald ⓘ |
| partnerOf | John D. MacDonald ⓘ |
| spouse | John D. MacDonald ⓘ |
| spouseName | John D. MacDonald ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
crime fiction writer
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ |
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: Dorothy Prentiss MacDonald Description of subject: Dorothy Prentiss MacDonald was the wife of American novelist John D. MacDonald and a significant partner in his personal and professional life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.