Mary
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Mary is the given name of American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter Mary Kay Place, known for her work in film and television since the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8837876 — 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 Context triple: [Mary Kay Place, givenName, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is a fictional character in B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community’s young members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
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B.
Mary
Mary is the birth name of American actress, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds, a major Hollywood star of the mid-20th century.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the middle name of Katherine Mary Dewar, a component of her full personal name.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary J. Blige, the acclaimed American singer, songwriter, and actress often called the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul."
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E.
Mary
Mary is a minor character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom's kind and well-behaved cousin.
- 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 Target entity description: Mary is the given name of American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter Mary Kay Place, known for her work in film and television since the 1970s.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of American character actress Marjorie Main, known for her roles in classic Hollywood films.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of American silent film actress Mae Marsh, known for her roles in early 20th-century cinema.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the birth name of American actress, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds, a major Hollywood star of the mid-20th century.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of American actress and television icon Mary Tyler Moore, best known for her roles in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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E.
Mary
Mary is the given first name of the acclaimed American actress Meryl Streep.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Place ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| knownFor | work in film and television since the 1970s ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Being John Malkovich
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Big Love ⓘ Citizen Ruth ⓘ Diane ⓘ Girl, Interrupted ⓘ Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ⓘ The Big Chill ⓘ The Promised Land ⓘ The Rainmaker ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actress ⓘ film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ singer ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Mary is the given name of American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter Mary Kay Place, known for her work in film and television since the 1970s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.