Mary Ann Holmes
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Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Ann Holmes canonical | 11 |
| Mary Ann Booth | 1 |
| Mary Ann Holmes is the mother of Edwin Booth | 1 |
| Mary Ann Holmes is the mother of John Wilkes Booth | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T170826 — 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 Ann Holmes Context triple: [Edwin Booth, mother, Mary Ann Holmes]
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A.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Katherine Tupper Brown
Katherine Tupper Brown was an American woman best known as the wife of U.S. Army General and statesman George C. Marshall, supporting his military and diplomatic career during and after World War II.
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C.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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D.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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E.
Mary Louise Bell
Mary Louise Bell was the first wife of renowned physicist Richard Feynman, whom he married after the death of his childhood sweetheart Arline Greenbaum.
- 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 Ann Holmes Target entity description: Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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A.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Katherine Tupper Brown
Katherine Tupper Brown was an American woman best known as the wife of U.S. Army General and statesman George C. Marshall, supporting his military and diplomatic career during and after World War II.
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C.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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D.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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E.
Mary Louise Bell
Mary Louise Bell was the first wife of renowned physicist Richard Feynman, whom he married after the death of his childhood sweetheart Arline Greenbaum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| child | Edwin Booth ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Holmes ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Ann Holmes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of Edwin Booth
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being the wife of Junius Brutus Booth ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Edwin Booth
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Junius Brutus Booth ⓘ |
| occupation |
Shakespearean tragedian
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homemaker ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse |
Junius Brutus Booth
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Mary Ann Holmes ⓘ |
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 Ann Holmes Description of subject: Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mary Ann Holmes
subject linked to:
Mary Ann Holmes
subject linked to:
Mary Ann Holmes
linked to: Mary Ann Holmes
linked to: Mary Ann Holmes
subject linked to:
Asia Booth Clarke is the sister of John Wilkes Booth
subject linked to:
Rosalie Booth is the sister of John Wilkes Booth
subject linked to:
Rosalie Booth is the sister of John Wilkes Booth