Mary Norris
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Mary Norris was the first wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony settler Isaac Allerton, and one of the women who died during the colony’s harsh first winter.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Norris Allerton | 6 |
| Mary Norris canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2350129 — 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 Norris Context triple: [Isaac Allerton, spouse, Mary Norris]
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A.
Jane Falbury
Jane Falbury is the ambitious young woman at the center of the musical film "Summer Stock," who struggles to save her family farm while hosting a theatrical troupe.
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B.
Margery Durant
Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
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C.
Mary Walsingham
Mary Walsingham was an English gentlewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Walter Mildmay.
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D.
Hawise de Beaumont
Hawise de Beaumont was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman noblewoman and countess, notable as a member of the influential Beaumont family and through her dynastic connections to the English royal court.
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E.
Margaret Jasper
Margaret Jasper was the wife of English naval officer Sir William Penn and the mother of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.
- 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 Norris Target entity description: Mary Norris was the first wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony settler Isaac Allerton, and one of the women who died during the colony’s harsh first winter.
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A.
Jane Falbury
Jane Falbury is the ambitious young woman at the center of the musical film "Summer Stock," who struggles to save her family farm while hosting a theatrical troupe.
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B.
Margery Durant
Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
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C.
Mary Walsingham
Mary Walsingham was an English gentlewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Walter Mildmay.
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D.
Hawise de Beaumont
Hawise de Beaumont was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman noblewoman and countess, notable as a member of the influential Beaumont family and through her dynastic connections to the English royal court.
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E.
Margaret Jasper
Margaret Jasper was the wife of English naval officer Sir William Penn and the mother of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English colonist in North America
ⓘ
Mayflower passenger ⓘ historical person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mayflower Compact signers’ families
ⓘ
Pilgrims ⓘ Plymouth, New England ⓘ
linked to:
Plymouth, Massachusetts
|
| burialPlace | Plymouth, New England (probable, unmarked grave) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| deathCause | illness and hardship during the first winter in Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| deathEvent | died during the first winter of 1620–1621 in Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| diedIn | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| ethnicity | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Norris ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Bartholomew Allerton
ⓘ
Mary Allerton ⓘ Remember Allerton ⓘ |
| lifeEvent | sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton
ⓘ
dying during the first winter in Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| parent |
Mary Norris
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Mary Norris ⓘ Mary Norris ⓘ |
| participatedIn | establishment of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| passengerOn | Mayflower ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Separatist ⓘ |
| spouse |
Isaac Allerton
ⓘ
Mary Norris ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
Plymouth Colony leader
ⓘ
merchant ⓘ |
| traveledTo | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| yearOfArrivalInNorthAmerica | 1620 ⓘ |
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 Norris Description of subject: Mary Norris was the first wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony settler Isaac Allerton, and one of the women who died during the colony’s harsh first winter.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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