Mary Hay
E276594
Mary Hay was an American stage and silent film actress and dancer active in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Hay canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2550439 — 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 Hay Context triple: [Way Down East, stars, Mary Hay]
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A.
Alice Clopton
Alice Clopton is best known as the former wife of civil rights leader and politician Julian Bond.
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B.
Elizabeth Hopkins
Elizabeth Hopkins was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as a member of the prominent Hopkins family, being the daughter of early Rhode Island leader Stephen Hopkins.
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C.
Mary Goodnight
Mary Goodnight is a British Secret Service agent and Bond girl who appears as James Bond’s ally and love interest in the film "The Man with the Golden Gun."
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D.
Elizabeth Allen
Elizabeth Allen was the wife of English potter and abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood II and a member of the prominent Wedgwood family connected to industrial and social reform in 18th–19th century Britain.
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E.
Jean Armour
Jean Armour was the wife of Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered as his long-suffering partner and the mother of several of his children.
- 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 Hay Target entity description: Mary Hay was an American stage and silent film actress and dancer active in the early 20th century.
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A.
Alice Clopton
Alice Clopton is best known as the former wife of civil rights leader and politician Julian Bond.
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B.
Elizabeth Hopkins
Elizabeth Hopkins was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as a member of the prominent Hopkins family, being the daughter of early Rhode Island leader Stephen Hopkins.
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C.
Mary Goodnight
Mary Goodnight is a British Secret Service agent and Bond girl who appears as James Bond’s ally and love interest in the film "The Man with the Golden Gun."
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D.
Elizabeth Allen
Elizabeth Allen was the wife of English potter and abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood II and a member of the prominent Wedgwood family connected to industrial and social reform in 18th–19th century Britain.
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E.
Jean Armour
Jean Armour was the wife of Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered as his long-suffering partner and the mother of several of his children.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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dancer ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actress ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| artisticDiscipline |
acting
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dance ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
performing arts
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silent cinema ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
silent film
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stage performance ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance |
silent film
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stage ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American stage performances
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dance performances ⓘ silent film roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ziegfeld Follies (stage revues)
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linked to:
Ziegfeld Follies
silent films of the early 20th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
dancer ⓘ silent film actress ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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 Hay Description of subject: Mary Hay was an American stage and silent film actress and dancer active in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.