Mary Higgins Clark
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Mary Higgins Clark was a bestselling American author renowned for her suspenseful mystery and thriller novels, often featuring strong female protagonists.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Higgins Clark canonical | 113 |
| Mary Higgins Clark bibliography | 2 |
| Mary Higgins Clark short fiction | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T179822 — 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 Higgins Clark Context triple: [Simon & Schuster, notableAuthorPublished, Mary Higgins Clark]
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A.
Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg is an American author, actress, and comedian best known for her novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," which was adapted into the popular film "Fried Green Tomatoes."
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B.
Susannah Martin
Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Valeria Wasserman
Valeria Wasserman is a Brazilian linguist and translator best known as the wife of renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky.
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D.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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E.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
- 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 Higgins Clark Target entity description: Mary Higgins Clark was a bestselling American author renowned for her suspenseful mystery and thriller novels, often featuring strong female protagonists.
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A.
Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg is an American author, actress, and comedian best known for her novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," which was adapted into the popular film "Fried Green Tomatoes."
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B.
Susannah Martin
Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Valeria Wasserman
Valeria Wasserman is a Brazilian linguist and translator best known as the wife of renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky.
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D.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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E.
Nancy Carlson
Nancy Carlson is known as the wife of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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 Higgins Clark Description of subject: Mary Higgins Clark was a bestselling American author renowned for her suspenseful mystery and thriller novels, often featuring strong female protagonists.
Referenced by (116)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
I’ll Be Seeing You
subject linked to:
I’ll Be Seeing You
linked to: Mary Higgins Clark