Mary Ansell
E389033
Mary Ansell was an English actress best known as the first wife of playwright J. M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Ansell canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3061406 — 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 Ansell Context triple: [J. M. Barrie, spouse, Mary Ansell]
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A.
Mary Pugh
Mary Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Pugh.
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B.
Mary McDougall
Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
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C.
Elizabeth Alington
Elizabeth Alington was a British aristocrat and the wife of Conservative politician and former UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
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D.
Helen Melland
Helen Melland was the wife of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the English upper-middle class in the late 19th century.
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E.
Anne Boulton
Anne Boulton was the wife of prominent English industrialist and manufacturer Matthew Boulton, associated with the early Industrial Revolution in Birmingham.
- 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 Ansell Target entity description: Mary Ansell was an English actress best known as the first wife of playwright J. M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan.
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A.
Mary Pugh
Mary Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Pugh.
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B.
Mary McDougall
Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
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C.
Elizabeth Alington
Elizabeth Alington was a British aristocrat and the wife of Conservative politician and former UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
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D.
Helen Melland
Helen Melland was the wife of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the English upper-middle class in the late 19th century.
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E.
Anne Boulton
Anne Boulton was the wife of prominent English industrialist and manufacturer Matthew Boulton, associated with the early Industrial Revolution in Birmingham.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English person
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actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
J. M. Barrie
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Peter Pan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
performing arts
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theatre ⓘ |
| genre | theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| name | Mary Ansell ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of J. M. Barrie
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work as an English actress ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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stage actress ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
J. M. Barrie
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Mary Ansell ⓘ |
| spouseOfNotableWork | Peter Pan ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation | playwright ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of J. M. Barrie ⓘ |
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 Ansell Description of subject: Mary Ansell was an English actress best known as the first wife of playwright J. M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.