Mary
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Mary is the central character of the film "Precious," a harshly abusive mother whose behavior profoundly shapes her daughter's traumatic life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12988786 — 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 Context triple: [Mary Lee Johnston, basedOn, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is the given name of the American suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, known for her bestselling mystery and thriller books.
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B.
Mary
Mary is the given name of American character actress Marjorie Main, known for her roles in classic Hollywood films.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Catherine Bateson, an American cultural anthropologist and writer known for her work on learning and the human life cycle.
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D.
Mary
Mary is the middle name of Joseph Plunkett, the Irish nationalist, poet, and 1916 Easter Rising leader.
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E.
Mary
Mary is the birth name of American actress, comedian, and writer Lily Tomlin, known for her groundbreaking work in television, film, and theater.
- 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 Target entity description: Mary is the central character of the film "Precious," a harshly abusive mother whose behavior profoundly shapes her daughter's traumatic life.
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Mary
Mary is the central protagonist of the play "The Memory of Water," around whom the story’s emotional and familial conflicts revolve.
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Mary
Mary is a central figure in Christianity, venerated as the mother of Jesus and often honored as the Virgin Mary.
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Mary
Mary is a central character in the romantic comedy film "About Time," known for her warm, quirky personality and her relationship with the time-traveling protagonist.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of American character actress Marjorie Main, known for her roles in classic Hollywood films.
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Mary
Mary is a central character in Robert Frost's narrative poem "The Death of the Hired Man," serving as a compassionate and mediating presence between her husband Warren and the returning farmhand Silas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Precious
ⓘ
film Precious ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBasedOn | novel Push by Sapphire ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy |
director Lee Daniels
ⓘ
linked to:
Lee Daniels
|
| basedOn | character from the novel Push by Sapphire ⓘ |
| behaviorCharacterization | harshly abusive ⓘ |
| causes | trauma in her daughter's life ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Claireece Precious Jones ⓘ |
| genreContext | drama film character ⓘ |
| hasChild | Claireece Precious Jones ⓘ |
| influences | Claireece Precious Jones's life ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | source of familial abuse ⓘ |
| narrativeImpact |
drives central conflict of Precious
ⓘ
shapes protagonist's self-perception ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
abusive mother
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antagonist ⓘ |
| relationshipToClaireece Precious Jones | mother ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | central character ⓘ |
| settingContext |
Harlem, New York City
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linked to:
Harlem
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| thematicAssociation |
cycle of abuse
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intergenerational trauma ⓘ parental neglect ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Mary is the central character of the film "Precious," a harshly abusive mother whose behavior profoundly shapes her daughter's traumatic life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.