Mary Fleming
E1001503
Mary Fleming was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman and one of the famed "Four Marys" who served Mary, Queen of Scots.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lady Fleming | 1 |
| Mary Fleming canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12616168 — 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 Fleming Context triple: [William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry, mother, Mary Fleming]
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A.
Elizabeth Campbell
Elizabeth Campbell was the wife of renowned American photographer, filmmaker, and writer Gordon Parks.
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B.
Laura Mackenzie
Laura Mackenzie is the birth name of American actress and singer Mackenzie Phillips, known for her roles in "American Graffiti" and the sitcom "One Day at a Time."
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C.
Mary MacGregor
Mary MacGregor is a fictional young Highland woman in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Rob Roy," notable for her tragic fate amid the clan conflicts of early 18th-century Scotland.
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D.
Anna Mackenzie
Anna Mackenzie was a 17th-century Scottish noblewoman noted for her influential marriages into powerful aristocratic families and her role in the political and social life of her time.
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E.
Elisabeth Farquharson
Elisabeth Farquharson was an 18th-century Scottish gentlewoman best known as the wife of the jurist and early evolutionary thinker James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
- 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 Fleming Target entity description: Mary Fleming was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman and one of the famed "Four Marys" who served Mary, Queen of Scots.
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A.
Elizabeth Campbell
Elizabeth Campbell was the wife of renowned American photographer, filmmaker, and writer Gordon Parks.
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B.
Laura Mackenzie
Laura Mackenzie is the birth name of American actress and singer Mackenzie Phillips, known for her roles in "American Graffiti" and the sitcom "One Day at a Time."
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C.
Mary MacGregor
Mary MacGregor is a fictional young Highland woman in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Rob Roy," notable for her tragic fate amid the clan conflicts of early 18th-century Scotland.
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D.
Anna Mackenzie
Anna Mackenzie was a 17th-century Scottish noblewoman noted for her influential marriages into powerful aristocratic families and her role in the political and social life of her time.
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E.
Elisabeth Farquharson
Elisabeth Farquharson was an 18th-century Scottish gentlewoman best known as the wife of the jurist and early evolutionary thinker James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish noblewoman
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courtier ⓘ historical figure ⓘ lady-in-waiting ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French court
ⓘ
Scottish court ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | personal retinue of Mary, Queen of Scots ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| closeCompanionOf | Mary, Queen of Scots ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish people ⓘ |
| familyName | Fleming ⓘ |
| father | Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Scots ⓘ |
| memberOf | Four Marys ⓘ |
| mother | Janet Stewart, Lady Fleming ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Fleming family ⓘ |
| nobleRank | Lady ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the Four Marys
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service in the household of Mary, Queen of Scots ⓘ |
| partOf | household of Mary, Queen of Scots ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lady-in-waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| served | Mary, Queen of Scots ⓘ |
| sibling | James Fleming, 4th Lord Fleming ⓘ |
| spouse | William Maitland of Lethington ⓘ |
| title |
Lady Fleming
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linked to:
Mary Fleming
|
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 Fleming Description of subject: Mary Fleming was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman and one of the famed "Four Marys" who served Mary, Queen of Scots.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mary Fleming