Mary Cleary
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Mary Cleary was the wife of Commodore John Barry, an early U.S. naval officer often called the "Father of the American Navy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Cleary canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2850454 — 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 Cleary Context triple: [Commodore John Barry, spouse, Mary Cleary]
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A.
Mary Mulhern
Mary Mulhern was an American actress best known for her brief Hollywood career in the silent film era and her marriage to actor Jack Pickford.
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B.
Irene O’Connor
Irene O’Connor was the first wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell, whom he married in the early 20th century.
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C.
Roz Doyle
Roz Doyle is a sharp-tongued, witty radio producer and close friend of Frasier Crane on the television sitcom "Frasier."
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D.
Margaret Kelly
Margaret Kelly is an American artist and the first wife of actor and comedian Bill Murray, to whom she was married from 1981 to 1996.
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E.
Mary Connelly
Mary Connelly is a television producer best known for her work as an executive producer on major daytime talk shows, including The Jennifer Hudson Show.
- 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 Cleary Target entity description: Mary Cleary was the wife of Commodore John Barry, an early U.S. naval officer often called the "Father of the American Navy."
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A.
Mary Mulhern
Mary Mulhern was an American actress best known for her brief Hollywood career in the silent film era and her marriage to actor Jack Pickford.
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B.
Irene O’Connor
Irene O’Connor was the first wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell, whom he married in the early 20th century.
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C.
Roz Doyle
Roz Doyle is a sharp-tongued, witty radio producer and close friend of Frasier Crane on the television sitcom "Frasier."
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D.
Margaret Kelly
Margaret Kelly is an American artist and the first wife of actor and comedian Bill Murray, to whom she was married from 1981 to 1996.
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E.
Mary Connelly
Mary Connelly is a television producer best known for her work as an executive producer on major daytime talk shows, including The Jennifer Hudson Show.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Commodore John Barry ⓘ |
| spouse | John Barry ⓘ |
| spouseHonorificTitle | Father of the American Navy ⓘ |
| spouseMilitaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| spouseNameAtBirth | John Barry ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| spouseRank | Commodore ⓘ |
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 Cleary Description of subject: Mary Cleary was the wife of Commodore John Barry, an early U.S. naval officer often called the "Father of the American Navy."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.