Mary Duty Smith
E893349
Mary Duty Smith was the mother of Joseph Smith Sr. and grandmother of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Duty Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9231462 — 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 Duty Smith Context triple: [Joseph Smith Sr., mother, Mary Duty Smith]
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A.
Mary Lee Johnston
Mary Lee Johnston is a character in the film "Precious," serving as the abusive and deeply troubled mother of the protagonist, Claireece "Precious" Jones.
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B.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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C.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Frances Kirby Smith
Frances Kirby Smith was a member of the family of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, known primarily through her relation to him.
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E.
Mary Louise McLean
Mary Louise McLean was the daughter of American socialite Mildred McLean Hazen, connected to a prominent Washington, D.C. family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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 Duty Smith Target entity description: Mary Duty Smith was the mother of Joseph Smith Sr. and grandmother of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
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A.
Mary Lee Johnston
Mary Lee Johnston is a character in the film "Precious," serving as the abusive and deeply troubled mother of the protagonist, Claireece "Precious" Jones.
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B.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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C.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Frances Kirby Smith
Frances Kirby Smith was a member of the family of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, known primarily through her relation to him.
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E.
Mary Louise McLean
Mary Louise McLean was the daughter of American socialite Mildred McLean Hazen, connected to a prominent Washington, D.C. family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| grandmotherOf |
Joseph Smith
ⓘ
linked to:
Joseph Smith Sr.
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| hasReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| motherOf | Joseph Smith Sr. ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the grandmother of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
ⓘ
being the mother of Joseph Smith Sr. ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Joseph Smith
ⓘ
linked to:
Joseph Smith Sr.
Joseph Smith Sr. ⓘ |
| partOf | Smith family ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 Duty Smith Description of subject: Mary Duty Smith was the mother of Joseph Smith Sr. and grandmother of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.