Mary Carr
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Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Carr canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T315469 — 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 Carr Context triple: [Lights of New York (1928 film), hasCastMember, Mary Carr]
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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 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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C.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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D.
Katherine Carver
Katherine Carver was the wife of John Carver, the first governor of Plymouth Colony, and a member of the early Pilgrim community in New England.
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E.
Carrie May Brodhead Wallace
Carrie May Brodhead Wallace was the mother of U.S. Vice President and progressive political leader Henry A. Wallace.
- 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 Carr Target entity description: Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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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 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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C.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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D.
Katherine Carver
Katherine Carver was the wife of John Carver, the first governor of Plymouth Colony, and a member of the early Pilgrim community in New England.
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E.
Carrie May Brodhead Wallace
Carrie May Brodhead Wallace was the mother of U.S. Vice President and progressive political leader Henry A. Wallace.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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actor ⓘ character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ person ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early sound film era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century American cinema ⓘ |
| familyName | Carr ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinema ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Mary Carr ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying kindly maternal figures ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actress ⓘ |
| typicalRole |
maternal figure
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mother ⓘ |
| workStyle | character roles ⓘ |
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 Carr Description of subject: Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.