Mrs. Anna Smith
E121653
Mrs. Anna Smith is the warm, practical matriarch of the Smith family in the classic musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis," around whom much of the story’s domestic life and emotional core revolves.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Anna Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1017477 — 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: Mrs. Anna Smith Context triple: [Meet Me in St. Louis, mainCharacter, Mrs. Anna Smith]
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A.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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B.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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C.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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D.
Mary Lee Ware
Mary Lee Ware was an American philanthropist and patron of science best known for financing Harvard University’s famous Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (the “Glass Flowers”).
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E.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
- 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: Mrs. Anna Smith Target entity description: Mrs. Anna Smith is the warm, practical matriarch of the Smith family in the classic musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis," around whom much of the story’s domestic life and emotional core revolves.
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A.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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B.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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C.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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D.
Mary Lee Ware
Mary Lee Ware was an American philanthropist and patron of science best known for financing Harvard University’s famous Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (the “Glass Flowers”).
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E.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ matriarch ⓘ mother ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Meet Me in St. Louis ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
musical film
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romantic musical ⓘ |
| centralTo |
domestic life of the Smith family
ⓘ
emotional core of Meet Me in St. Louis ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
caring
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level-headed ⓘ practical ⓘ supportive ⓘ warm ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Meet Me in St. Louis universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Meet Me in St. Louis
|
| givenName | Anna ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Agnes Smith
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Esther Smith ⓘ Rose Smith ⓘ Tootie Smith ⓘ |
| hasResidence |
St. Louis
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linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| hasSpouse | Alonzo Smith ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
emotional anchor of the Smith family
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family matriarch ⓘ supporting character ⓘ |
| settingEventContext | run-up to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 1900s ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Anna Smith Description of subject: Mrs. Anna Smith is the warm, practical matriarch of the Smith family in the classic musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis," around whom much of the story’s domestic life and emotional core revolves.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.