Mary Brady
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Mary Brady is a fictional character portrayed by Alice Krige, best known as the sinister shape-shifting mother in the horror film "Sleepwalkers."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Brady canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8305078 — 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 Brady Context triple: [Alice Krige, role, Mary Brady]
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A.
Dolores Gray
Dolores Gray was an American actress and singer known for her powerful voice and performances in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
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B.
Barbara Higbie
Barbara Higbie is an American pianist, violinist, singer-songwriter, and composer known for her genre-blending contemporary instrumental and folk-influenced music.
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C.
Mary Lee Johnston
Mary Lee Johnston is a character in the film "Precious," serving as the abusive and deeply troubled mother of the protagonist, Claireece "Precious" Jones.
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D.
Mary Dobbs
Mary Dobbs was the mother of Richard Dobbs Spaight, a prominent early American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution from North Carolina.
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E.
Mrs. Brady
Mrs. Brady is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," depicted as the supportive and traditional wife of the fundamentalist prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady.
- 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 Brady Target entity description: Mary Brady is a fictional character portrayed by Alice Krige, best known as the sinister shape-shifting mother in the horror film "Sleepwalkers."
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A.
Dolores Gray
Dolores Gray was an American actress and singer known for her powerful voice and performances in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
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B.
Barbara Higbie
Barbara Higbie is an American pianist, violinist, singer-songwriter, and composer known for her genre-blending contemporary instrumental and folk-influenced music.
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C.
Mary Lee Johnston
Mary Lee Johnston is a character in the film "Precious," serving as the abusive and deeply troubled mother of the protagonist, Claireece "Precious" Jones.
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D.
Mary Dobbs
Mary Dobbs was the mother of Richard Dobbs Spaight, a prominent early American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution from North Carolina.
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E.
Mrs. Brady
Mrs. Brady is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," depicted as the supportive and traditional wife of the fundamentalist prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| ability |
illusion casting
ⓘ
invisibility ⓘ shapeshifting ⓘ superhuman durability ⓘ superhuman strength ⓘ telekinesis ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Sleepwalkers ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | original screenplay by Stephen King ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| enemy |
Tanya Robertson
ⓘ
local law enforcement in Travis, Indiana ⓘ |
| familyRelation | mother of Charles Brady ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Sleepwalkers (1992 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Sleepwalkers
|
| firstAppearance |
Sleepwalkers (1992 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Sleepwalkers
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| goal | to feed on the lifeforce of virginal young women ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
ability to change her physical appearance at will
ⓘ
incestuous relationship with her son Charles Brady ⓘ |
| notablePortrayal | Alice Krige’s performance in Sleepwalkers ⓘ |
| occupation | predatory supernatural being ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Alice Krige ⓘ |
| setting | Travis, Indiana ⓘ |
| species | Sleepwalker ⓘ |
| weakness | cats ⓘ |
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 Brady Description of subject: Mary Brady is a fictional character portrayed by Alice Krige, best known as the sinister shape-shifting mother in the horror film "Sleepwalkers."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.