Mary Orr
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Mary Orr was an American writer and playwright best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which inspired the classic film All About Eve.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Orr canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1005562 — 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 Orr Context triple: [The Wisdom of Eve, author, Mary Orr]
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A.
Catherine Gordon
Catherine Gordon was a Scottish heiress and the mother of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose troubled marriage and financial difficulties influenced his early life.
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B.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of the Protestant reformer John Knox.
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C.
Marjorie, Countess of Carrick
Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, was a 13th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the mother of King Robert the Bruce and a key figure in the lineage of the Scottish royal house.
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D.
Isabella of Mar
Isabella of Mar was a Scottish noblewoman and the first wife of Robert the Bruce, later King of Scots, and mother of his daughter Marjorie Bruce.
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E.
Catherine Stuart
Catherine Stuart was a member of the Stuart family and a sister of Elizabeth Stuart, the "Winter Queen" and daughter of King James VI and I.
- 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 Orr Target entity description: Mary Orr was an American writer and playwright best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which inspired the classic film All About Eve.
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A.
Catherine Gordon
Catherine Gordon was a Scottish heiress and the mother of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose troubled marriage and financial difficulties influenced his early life.
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B.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of the Protestant reformer John Knox.
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C.
Marjorie, Countess of Carrick
Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, was a 13th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the mother of King Robert the Bruce and a key figure in the lineage of the Scottish royal house.
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D.
Isabella of Mar
Isabella of Mar was a Scottish noblewoman and the first wife of Robert the Bruce, later King of Scots, and mother of his daughter Marjorie Bruce.
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E.
Catherine Stuart
Catherine Stuart was a member of the Stuart family and a sister of Elizabeth Stuart, the "Winter Queen" and daughter of King James VI and I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
person ⓘ playwright ⓘ short story ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| author | Mary Orr ⓘ |
| basedOn |
"The Wisdom of Eve"
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linked to:
The Wisdom of Eve
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyName | Orr ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drama
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literature ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | fiction ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Mary ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Mary Orr ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
film "All About Eve"
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linked to:
All About Eve
|
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
short story "The Wisdom of Eve"
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linked to:
The Wisdom of Eve
|
| notableWork |
The Wisdom of Eve
ⓘ
plays ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
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writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 Orr Description of subject: Mary Orr was an American writer and playwright best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which inspired the classic film All About Eve.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.