Mary Ellen Sullivan
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Mary Ellen Sullivan was the wife of American actor and boxer Max Baer Sr., known primarily for her role in his personal life rather than for a public career of her own.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Ellen Sullivan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5003079 — 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 Ellen Sullivan Context triple: [Max Baer Sr., spouse, Mary Ellen Sullivan]
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A.
Florence Stanley
Florence Stanley was an American character actress best known for her roles on the television series "Barney Miller" and "My Two Dads."
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B.
Ellen Church
Ellen Church was an American nurse and aviation pioneer recognized as the world’s first female flight attendant.
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C.
Frances Allan
Frances Allan was the foster mother of American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who helped raise him in the Allan household in Richmond, Virginia.
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D.
Florence McFadden
Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Mildred Davis
Mildred Davis was an American silent film actress best known for her leading roles opposite comedian Harold Lloyd in the 1920s.
- 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 Ellen Sullivan Target entity description: Mary Ellen Sullivan was the wife of American actor and boxer Max Baer Sr., known primarily for her role in his personal life rather than for a public career of her own.
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A.
Florence Stanley
Florence Stanley was an American character actress best known for her roles on the television series "Barney Miller" and "My Two Dads."
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B.
Ellen Church
Ellen Church was an American nurse and aviation pioneer recognized as the world’s first female flight attendant.
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C.
Frances Allan
Frances Allan was the foster mother of American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who helped raise him in the Allan household in Richmond, Virginia.
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D.
Florence McFadden
Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Mildred Davis
Mildred Davis was an American silent film actress best known for her leading roles opposite comedian Harold Lloyd in the 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasNoWidelyKnownPublicCareer | true ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of American actor and boxer Max Baer Sr. ⓘ |
| spouse | Max Baer Sr. ⓘ |
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 Ellen Sullivan Description of subject: Mary Ellen Sullivan was the wife of American actor and boxer Max Baer Sr., known primarily for her role in his personal life rather than for a public career of her own.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.