Alice Mona Shaw
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Alice Mona Shaw, better known as Mona Best, was the mother of original Beatles drummer Pete Best and the founder of Liverpool’s Casbah Coffee Club, an important early venue for the band.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alice Mona Shaw canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19200479 — 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: Alice Mona Shaw Context triple: [Mona Best, birthName, Alice Mona Shaw]
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A.
Margaret Fay Shaw
Margaret Fay Shaw was an American-born folklorist, photographer, and collector of Scottish Gaelic song and culture, renowned for her influential work documenting the traditions of the Hebrides.
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B.
Mabel Gordon
Mabel Gordon is a fictional character in Ken Follett’s historical thriller "Night Over Water," set against the backdrop of a transatlantic flight at the outbreak of World War II.
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C.
Dorothy McIlwraith
Dorothy McIlwraith was an American magazine editor best known for her influential mid-20th-century stewardship of the pulp fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales.
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D.
Mary Shewell
Mary Shewell was the mother of English critic, essayist, and poet Leigh Hunt, a key figure in the Romantic literary circle.
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E.
Sylvia Noble
Sylvia Noble is a recurring Doctor Who character, best known as Donna Noble’s outspoken and overprotective mother.
- 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: Alice Mona Shaw Target entity description: Alice Mona Shaw, better known as Mona Best, was the mother of original Beatles drummer Pete Best and the founder of Liverpool’s Casbah Coffee Club, an important early venue for the band.
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A.
Margaret Fay Shaw
Margaret Fay Shaw was an American-born folklorist, photographer, and collector of Scottish Gaelic song and culture, renowned for her influential work documenting the traditions of the Hebrides.
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B.
Mabel Gordon
Mabel Gordon is a fictional character in Ken Follett’s historical thriller "Night Over Water," set against the backdrop of a transatlantic flight at the outbreak of World War II.
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C.
Dorothy McIlwraith
Dorothy McIlwraith was an American magazine editor best known for her influential mid-20th-century stewardship of the pulp fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales.
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D.
Mary Shewell
Mary Shewell was the mother of English critic, essayist, and poet Leigh Hunt, a key figure in the Romantic literary circle.
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E.
Sylvia Noble
Sylvia Noble is a recurring Doctor Who character, best known as Donna Noble’s outspoken and overprotective mother.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.