Maura
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Maura is a feminine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often considered a variant of Mary or Maureen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maura canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2590919 — 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: Maura Context triple: [Maura Healey, givenName, Maura]
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A.
Maura Isles
Maura Isles is a brilliant, fashion-conscious medical examiner and one of the two central protagonists in the crime drama series "Rizzoli & Isles."
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B.
Maureen
Maureen is a feminine given name of Irish origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Daphne Moon
Daphne Moon is a quirky, psychic-leaning live-in physical therapist and housekeeper who becomes a central member of the Crane household on the television sitcom "Frasier."
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D.
Maggie Pierce
Maggie Pierce is a cardiothoracic surgeon and the biological half-sister of Meredith Grey on the long-running medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy.
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E.
Mary Clare
Mary Clare was a British stage and film actress known for her character roles in early 20th-century cinema and theatre.
- 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: Maura Target entity description: Maura is a feminine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often considered a variant of Mary or Maureen.
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A.
Maura Isles
Maura Isles is a brilliant, fashion-conscious medical examiner and one of the two central protagonists in the crime drama series "Rizzoli & Isles."
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B.
Maureen
Maureen is a feminine given name of Irish origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Daphne Moon
Daphne Moon is a quirky, psychic-leaning live-in physical therapist and housekeeper who becomes a central member of the Crane household on the television sitcom "Frasier."
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D.
Maggie Pierce
Maggie Pierce is a cardiothoracic surgeon and the biological half-sister of Meredith Grey on the long-running medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy.
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E.
Mary Clare
Mary Clare was a British stage and film actress known for her character roles in early 20th-century cinema and theatre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Maurus ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasDiminutive |
Maury
ⓘ
Mo ⓘ |
| hasNameDay | February 11 ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Latin ⓘ |
| hasRelatedName |
Maire
ⓘ
Mary ⓘ Mauraine ⓘ Maureen ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Mavra
ⓘ
Mora ⓘ |
| isUsedIn | English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| meaning |
Moorish
ⓘ
dark ⓘ |
| nameType | first name ⓘ |
| nameVariantOf |
Mary
ⓘ
Maureen ⓘ |
| popularity | moderate ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ Italian ⓘ |
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: Maura Description of subject: Maura is a feminine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often considered a variant of Mary or Maureen.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.