Mary Howland
E791105
Mary Howland is a woman known primarily as the sister of Elizabeth Howland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Howland canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9316158 — 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 Howland Context triple: [Elizabeth Howland, sibling, Mary Howland]
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A.
Merry Gardner
Merry Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire, the daughter of Samwise Gamgee, appearing in the appendices of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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B.
Flan Kittredge
Flan Kittredge is a wealthy New York art dealer and central figure in John Guare’s play and film "Six Degrees of Separation," whose encounter with a young con artist exposes the fragility and pretensions of his privileged world.
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C.
Mary Tyler Peabody
Mary Tyler Peabody was a 19th-century American educator and writer best known as the wife of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and a member of the prominent Peabody family of New England intellectuals.
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D.
Martha Brewster
Martha Brewster is one of the eccentric, sweetly homicidal elderly aunts in Joseph Kesselring’s dark comedy play "Arsenic and Old Lace."
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E.
Anne Lockhart
Anne Lockhart was a Scottish noblewoman of the 17th century who became Countess of Aberdeen through her marriage to George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen.
- 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 Howland Target entity description: Mary Howland is a woman known primarily as the sister of Elizabeth Howland.
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A.
Merry Gardner
Merry Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire, the daughter of Samwise Gamgee, appearing in the appendices of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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B.
Flan Kittredge
Flan Kittredge is a wealthy New York art dealer and central figure in John Guare’s play and film "Six Degrees of Separation," whose encounter with a young con artist exposes the fragility and pretensions of his privileged world.
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C.
Mary Tyler Peabody
Mary Tyler Peabody was a 19th-century American educator and writer best known as the wife of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and a member of the prominent Peabody family of New England intellectuals.
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D.
Martha Brewster
Martha Brewster is one of the eccentric, sweetly homicidal elderly aunts in Joseph Kesselring’s dark comedy play "Arsenic and Old Lace."
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E.
Anne Lockhart
Anne Lockhart was a Scottish noblewoman of the 17th century who became Countess of Aberdeen through her marriage to George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (4)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the sister of Elizabeth Howland ⓘ |
| sibling | Elizabeth Howland ⓘ |
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 Howland Description of subject: Mary Howland is a woman known primarily as the sister of Elizabeth Howland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.