Mary Ann Phelan
E194076
Mary Ann Phelan was the Irish-born mother of American actor Martin Sheen (born Ramón Estévez).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Ann Phelan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1301403 — 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 Ann Phelan Context triple: [Martin Sheen, mother, Mary Ann Phelan]
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A.
Mary Anne Creed
Mary Anne Creed is a supporting character in the Rocky and Creed film series, known as the strong, caring widow of Apollo Creed and adoptive mother of Adonis Creed.
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B.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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C.
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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D.
Josephine Dillon
Josephine Dillon was an American acting coach and the first wife of film star Clark Gable, known for helping develop his early career in Hollywood.
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E.
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."
- 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 Ann Phelan Target entity description: Mary Ann Phelan was the Irish-born mother of American actor Martin Sheen (born Ramón Estévez).
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A.
Mary Anne Creed
Mary Anne Creed is a supporting character in the Rocky and Creed film series, known as the strong, caring widow of Apollo Creed and adoptive mother of Adonis Creed.
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B.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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C.
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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D.
Josephine Dillon
Josephine Dillon was an American acting coach and the first wife of film star Clark Gable, known for helping develop his early career in Hollywood.
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| birthName | Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Martin Sheen
ⓘ
Ramón Estévez ⓘ
linked to:
Ramon Estevez
|
| mother |
Mary Ann Phelan
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Mary Ann Phelan ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Martin Sheen
ⓘ
Ramón Estévez ⓘ
linked to:
Ramon Estevez
|
| notableFor | being the Irish-born mother of American actor Martin Sheen ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Ireland
ⓘ
linked to:
Island of Ireland
|
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 Ann Phelan Description of subject: Mary Ann Phelan was the Irish-born mother of American actor Martin Sheen (born Ramón Estévez).
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.