Merry Gardner
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Merry Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire, the daughter of Samwise Gamgee, appearing in the appendices of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Merry Gardner canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2401783 — 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: Merry Gardner Context triple: [Samwise Gamgee, child, Merry Gardner]
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A.
Evelyn Gardner
Evelyn Gardner was a British socialite best known as the first wife of novelist Evelyn Waugh and a figure in interwar London’s bohemian circles.
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B.
Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" Gardner
Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" Gardner was the mother of American film star Ava Gardner and a North Carolina farm woman who played a formative role in her daughter's early life.
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C.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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D.
Dorothy Comingore
Dorothy Comingore was an American film actress best known for her acclaimed performance as Susan Alexander Kane in Orson Welles's classic film "Citizen Kane."
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E.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
- 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: Merry Gardner Target entity description: Merry Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire, the daughter of Samwise Gamgee, appearing in the appendices of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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A.
Evelyn Gardner
Evelyn Gardner was a British socialite best known as the first wife of novelist Evelyn Waugh and a figure in interwar London’s bohemian circles.
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B.
Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" Gardner
Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" Gardner was the mother of American film star Ava Gardner and a North Carolina farm woman who played a formative role in her daughter's early life.
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C.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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D.
Dorothy Comingore
Dorothy Comingore was an American film actress best known for her acclaimed performance as Susan Alexander Kane in Orson Welles's classic film "Citizen Kane."
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E.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Character in The Lord of the Rings
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Fictional character ⓘ Hobbit ⓘ Resident of the Shire ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Lord of the Rings: Appendices
ⓘ
linked to:
The Lord of the Rings appendices
|
| appearsInFictionalPeriod |
Fourth Age of Middle-earth
ⓘ
linked to:
Fourth Age
|
| appearsInWorkBy | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| childOf |
Rose Cotton
ⓘ
linked to:
Rosie Cotton
Samwise Gamgee ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Gardner ⓘ |
| hasFather | Samwise Gamgee ⓘ |
| hasMother |
Rose Cotton
ⓘ
linked to:
Rosie Cotton
|
| hasRace | Hobbit ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Bilbo Gardner
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Daisy Gardner ⓘ Elanor Gardner ⓘ Frodo Gardner ⓘ Goldilocks Gardner ⓘ Hamfast Gardner ⓘ Pippin Gardner ⓘ Primrose Gardner ⓘ Robin Gardner ⓘ Rose Gardner ⓘ Ruby Gardner ⓘ Tolman Gardner ⓘ |
| isCitizenOf | The Shire ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | Westron ⓘ |
| livesIn |
Hobbiton
ⓘ
The Shire ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Meriadoc Brandybuck ⓘ |
| setInFictionalWorld | Middle-earth ⓘ |
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: Merry Gardner Description of subject: Merry Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire, the daughter of Samwise Gamgee, appearing in the appendices of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.