Mary
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Mary is the central protagonist of the play "The Memory of Water," around whom the story’s emotional and familial conflicts revolve.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10495495 — 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: [The Memory of Water, mainCharacter, Mary]
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Mary
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, was a daughter of King George V and Queen Mary of the United Kingdom and a prominent British royal figure in the early to mid-20th century.
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Mary
Mary is a significant urban and economic center in southeastern Turkmenistan, known for its role in the country’s natural gas and cotton industries.
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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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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."
- 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 central protagonist of the play "The Memory of Water," around whom the story’s emotional and familial conflicts revolve.
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Mary
Mary is a central character in Robert Frost's narrative poem "The Death of the Hired Man," serving as a compassionate and mediating presence between her husband Warren and the returning farmhand Silas.
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Mary
Mary is a central character in Ralph Vaughan Williams's opera "Hugh the Drover," serving as the romantic interest whose choices drive much of the plot.
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Mary
Mary is a central character in the romantic comedy film "About Time," known for her warm, quirky personality and her relationship with the time-traveling protagonist.
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Mary
Mary is a supporting character in Richard Wagner’s opera "Der fliegende Holländer," typically portrayed as Senta’s nurse or confidante within the story’s coastal Norwegian setting.
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Mary
Mary is a fictional character portrayed by British actress Gemma Jones, known for her nuanced performances in film and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
theatre character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Memory of Water ⓘ |
| centralTo |
emotional conflicts in The Memory of Water
ⓘ
familial conflicts in The Memory of Water ⓘ |
| characterType | dramatic character ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Shelagh Stephenson ⓘ |
| drivesPlotOf | The Memory of Water ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Memory of Water fictional world ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn |
The Memory of Water (1996 stage premiere)
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linked to:
The Memory of Water
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| hasGenreContext | contemporary drama ⓘ |
| hasMedium | theatre ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | stage play ⓘ |
| hasThemeAssociation |
family relationships
ⓘ
grief ⓘ identity ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
central protagonist
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focal character ⓘ |
| partOfCast | The Memory of Water characters ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | The Memory of Water ⓘ |
| relatedTo | family dynamics in The Memory of Water ⓘ |
| subjectOf | character analyses of The Memory of Water ⓘ |
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 central protagonist of the play "The Memory of Water," around whom the story’s emotional and familial conflicts revolve.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Memory of Water (stage)