Mary Webb
E169467
Mary Webb was an English novelist and poet of the early 20th century, best known for her regional novels set in the Shropshire countryside, such as "Precious Bane" and "Gone to Earth."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Webb canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1474343 — 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 Webb Context triple: [Shrewsbury, hasNotableResident, Mary Webb]
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A.
Mary Jane Ward
Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
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B.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
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C.
Gwen Raverat
Gwen Raverat was a pioneering British wood engraver and illustrator, and a granddaughter of Charles Darwin, known for her influential role in the revival of wood engraving in the early 20th century.
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D.
Elinor Mead
Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
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E.
Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
- 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 Webb Target entity description: Mary Webb was an English novelist and poet of the early 20th century, best known for her regional novels set in the Shropshire countryside, such as "Precious Bane" and "Gone to Earth."
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A.
Mary Jane Ward
Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
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B.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
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C.
Gwen Raverat
Gwen Raverat was a pioneering British wood engraver and illustrator, and a granddaughter of Charles Darwin, known for her influential role in the revival of wood engraving in the early 20th century.
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D.
Elinor Mead
Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
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E.
Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English writer
ⓘ
human ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName |
Webb
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linked to:
James Webb Space Telescope
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| fieldOfWork |
fiction
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literature ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| floruit | early 20th century ⓘ |
| genre |
poetry
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regional fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literarySetting |
Shropshire countryside
ⓘ
linked to:
Shropshire Hills
|
| name | Mary Webb ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | regional novels set in Shropshire countryside ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gone to Earth
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Precious Bane ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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poet ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Shropshire ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation | Shropshire ⓘ |
| writingStyle | regionalism ⓘ |
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 Webb Description of subject: Mary Webb was an English novelist and poet of the early 20th century, best known for her regional novels set in the Shropshire countryside, such as "Precious Bane" and "Gone to Earth."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.