Mary Ellen Quinlan O'Neill
E274527
Mary Ellen Quinlan O'Neill was the mother of renowned American playwright Eugene O'Neill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Ellen Quinlan O'Neill canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2533310 — 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 Ellen Quinlan O'Neill Context triple: [Eugene O'Neill, parent, Mary Ellen Quinlan O'Neill]
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A.
Renée Felice Smith
Renée Felice Smith is an American actress best known for her longtime role as intelligence analyst Nell Jones on the television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
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B.
Constance Casey
Constance Casey is an American writer and journalist known for her essays and columns, and she is married to Nobel Prize–winning scientist Harold Varmus.
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C.
Patricia Knox
Patricia Knox is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Knox.
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D.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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E.
Joan Roberts
Joan Roberts was an American actress and singer best known for originating the role of Laurey in the landmark 1943 Broadway musical "Oklahoma!".
- 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 Ellen Quinlan O'Neill Target entity description: Mary Ellen Quinlan O'Neill was the mother of renowned American playwright Eugene O'Neill.
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A.
Renée Felice Smith
Renée Felice Smith is an American actress best known for her longtime role as intelligence analyst Nell Jones on the television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
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B.
Constance Casey
Constance Casey is an American writer and journalist known for her essays and columns, and she is married to Nobel Prize–winning scientist Harold Varmus.
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C.
Patricia Knox
Patricia Knox is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Knox.
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D.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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E.
Joan Roberts
Joan Roberts was an American actress and singer best known for originating the role of Laurey in the landmark 1943 Broadway musical "Oklahoma!".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Eugene O'Neill ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | O'Neill ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| name | Mary Ellen Quinlan O'Neill ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Eugene O'Neill
ⓘ
James O'Neill ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| spouse | James O'Neill ⓘ |
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 Ellen Quinlan O'Neill Description of subject: Mary Ellen Quinlan O'Neill was the mother of renowned American playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.