Mary Margaret McGuire
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Mary Margaret McGuire was a child actress known for appearing in early 20th-century American silent films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Margaret McGuire canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2305471 — 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 Margaret McGuire Context triple: [Sparrows (1926 film), castMember, Mary Margaret McGuire]
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A.
Mrs. Newsome
Mrs. Newsome is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matron in Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," who sends her fiancé Lambert Strether to Europe to retrieve her son from its perceived moral dangers.
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B.
Elizabeth Parker
Elizabeth Parker is a British composer and sound designer best known for her electronic music and soundscapes created at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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C.
Mary Carr
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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D.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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E.
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.
- 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 Margaret McGuire Target entity description: Mary Margaret McGuire was a child actress known for appearing in early 20th-century American silent films.
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A.
Mrs. Newsome
Mrs. Newsome is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matron in Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," who sends her fiancé Lambert Strether to Europe to retrieve her son from its perceived moral dangers.
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B.
Elizabeth Parker
Elizabeth Parker is a British composer and sound designer best known for her electronic music and soundscapes created at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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C.
Mary Carr
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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D.
Ruth Hopkins
Ruth Hopkins was a member of the prominent Hopkins family of early colonial New England, known primarily through her relationship to Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Stephen Hopkins.
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E.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child actress
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person ⓘ silent film actress ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | silent film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | early 20th-century American silent films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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child actress ⓘ film actress ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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 Margaret McGuire Description of subject: Mary Margaret McGuire was a child actress known for appearing in early 20th-century American silent films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.