Mary Bernice Townsend Percy
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Mary Bernice Townsend Percy was the wife of American novelist Walker Percy and a central figure in his personal and family life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Bernice Townsend Percy canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13561358 — 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 Bernice Townsend Percy Context triple: [Walker Percy, spouse, Mary Bernice Townsend Percy]
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A.
Eleanor Calvert
Eleanor Calvert was an 18th-century Maryland heiress and member of the prominent Calvert family who became the daughter-in-law of Martha Washington through her marriage to John Parke Custis.
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B.
Mary Scott Harrison
Mary Scott Harrison was the daughter of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison and First Lady Caroline Harrison, known as a member of the prominent Harrison political family.
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C.
Catherine Greene Hickling Prescott
Catherine Greene Hickling Prescott was the mother of American historian William H. Prescott and a member of a prominent New England family in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Eileen Percy
Eileen Percy was an Irish-born American silent film actress active in the 1910s and 1920s, known for her roles in early Hollywood productions.
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E.
Cornelia Elliot
Cornelia Elliot is the central protagonist of the story featuring Mr. and Mrs. Elliot, around whom the main events and character relationships revolve.
- 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 Bernice Townsend Percy Target entity description: Mary Bernice Townsend Percy was the wife of American novelist Walker Percy and a central figure in his personal and family life.
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A.
Eleanor Calvert
Eleanor Calvert was an 18th-century Maryland heiress and member of the prominent Calvert family who became the daughter-in-law of Martha Washington through her marriage to John Parke Custis.
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B.
Mary Scott Harrison
Mary Scott Harrison was the daughter of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison and First Lady Caroline Harrison, known as a member of the prominent Harrison political family.
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C.
Catherine Greene Hickling Prescott
Catherine Greene Hickling Prescott was the mother of American historian William H. Prescott and a member of a prominent New England family in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Eileen Percy
Eileen Percy was an Irish-born American silent film actress active in the 1910s and 1920s, known for her roles in early Hollywood productions.
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E.
Cornelia Elliot
Cornelia Elliot is the central protagonist of the story featuring Mr. and Mrs. Elliot, around whom the main events and character relationships revolve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Percy ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| name | Mary Bernice Townsend Percy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of American novelist Walker Percy
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role in Walker Percy's family life ⓘ role in Walker Percy's personal life ⓘ |
| occupation | novelist ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Bernice Townsend Percy
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Walker Percy ⓘ |
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 Bernice Townsend Percy Description of subject: Mary Bernice Townsend Percy was the wife of American novelist Walker Percy and a central figure in his personal and family life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.