Mary Young
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Mary Young, better known as Mary Pickersgill, was the American flag maker who sewed the large Star-Spangled Banner flag that inspired the United States national anthem.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Young canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1267507 — 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 Young Context triple: [Mary Pickersgill, birthName, Mary Young]
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A.
Mary Meredith
Mary Meredith is a fictional character from the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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B.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Judy Young
Judy Young is a daughter of pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin, known for her groundbreaking work on galaxy rotation and dark matter.
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D.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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E.
Mary James
Mary James was the first wife of acclaimed American film director Vincente Minnelli, known primarily for her brief marriage to him before his later, more famous unions.
- 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 Young Target entity description: Mary Young, better known as Mary Pickersgill, was the American flag maker who sewed the large Star-Spangled Banner flag that inspired the United States national anthem.
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A.
Mary Meredith
Mary Meredith is a fictional character from the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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B.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Judy Young
Judy Young is a daughter of pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin, known for her groundbreaking work on galaxy rotation and dark matter.
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D.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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E.
Mary James
Mary James was the first wife of acclaimed American film director Vincente Minnelli, known primarily for her brief marriage to him before his later, more famous unions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag maker
ⓘ
human ⓘ seamstress ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mary Pickersgill ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Fort McHenry
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Star-Spangled Banner ⓘ
linked to:
The Star-Spangled Banner
United States national anthem ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | self-employed ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
flag making
ⓘ
textile work ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Young ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasMarriedName | Pickersgill ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
The Star-Spangled Banner (United States national anthem)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Star-Spangled Banner
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent | creation of the Star-Spangled Banner flag used at Fort McHenry ⓘ |
| notableFor | sewing the large Star-Spangled Banner flag ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Star-Spangled Banner flag
ⓘ
linked to:
United States flag
|
| occupation |
businesswoman
ⓘ
flag maker ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Baltimore, Maryland
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linked to:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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| placeOfResidence |
Baltimore, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
|
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 Young Description of subject: Mary Young, better known as Mary Pickersgill, was the American flag maker who sewed the large Star-Spangled Banner flag that inspired the United States national anthem.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.