Marie Heaney
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Marie Heaney is an Irish writer and editor known for her work on Irish mythology and folklore, as well as for being married to Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marie Heaney canonical | 8 |
| Margaret Heaney | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1036675 — 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: Marie Heaney Context triple: [Seamus Heaney, spouse, Marie Heaney]
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A.
Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald
Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald was an Irish-American matriarch of the prominent Fitzgerald political family of Boston and grandmother of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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B.
Mary Therese Winifred Bourke
Mary Therese Winifred Bourke is the birth name of Mary Robinson, the Irish lawyer and politician who served as the first female President of Ireland and later as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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C.
Susan Flannery
Susan Flannery is an American actress best known for her long-running roles on the soap operas "Days of Our Lives" and "The Bold and the Beautiful," for which she received critical acclaim and multiple major awards.
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D.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
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E.
Joanne Rogers
Joanne Rogers was an American concert pianist and television personality best known as the longtime wife and collaborator of children's television icon Fred Rogers and as a prominent advocate for his legacy.
- 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: Marie Heaney Target entity description: Marie Heaney is an Irish writer and editor known for her work on Irish mythology and folklore, as well as for being married to Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney.
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A.
Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald
Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald was an Irish-American matriarch of the prominent Fitzgerald political family of Boston and grandmother of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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B.
Mary Therese Winifred Bourke
Mary Therese Winifred Bourke is the birth name of Mary Robinson, the Irish lawyer and politician who served as the first female President of Ireland and later as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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C.
Susan Flannery
Susan Flannery is an American actress best known for her long-running roles on the soap operas "Days of Our Lives" and "The Bold and the Beautiful," for which she received critical acclaim and multiple major awards.
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D.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
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E.
Joanne Rogers
Joanne Rogers was an American concert pianist and television personality best known as the longtime wife and collaborator of children's television icon Fred Rogers and as a prominent advocate for his legacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
editor
ⓘ
person ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Irish literary tradition ⓘ |
| basedOn | Irish oral tradition ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Irish mythology
ⓘ
linked to:
Celtic mythology
folklore ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
ⓘ
folklore ⓘ mythology ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Seamus Heaney ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableFor | retellings of Irish myths and legends ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends
ⓘ
The Names Upon the Harp: Irish Myth and Legend ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| spouse | Seamus Heaney ⓘ |
| spouseAward | Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | poet ⓘ |
| spouseOfNobelLaureate | Seamus Heaney ⓘ |
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: Marie Heaney Description of subject: Marie Heaney is an Irish writer and editor known for her work on Irish mythology and folklore, as well as for being married to Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Marie Heaney