Mary
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Mary Newbold Singer Sargent was an American art patron and the wife of renowned portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
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 T12842400 — 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 Newbold Singer Sargent, givenName, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is the given name of the American suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, known for her bestselling mystery and thriller books.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Catherine Bateson, an American cultural anthropologist and writer known for her work on learning and the human life cycle.
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Mary
Mary of Lancaster was a 14th-century English noblewoman, daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, and a member of the influential House of Lancaster.
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D.
Mary
Mary is the middle name of Joseph Plunkett, the Irish nationalist, poet, and 1916 Easter Rising leader.
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E.
Mary
Mary is the birth name of American actress, comedian, and writer Lily Tomlin, known for her groundbreaking work in television, film, and theater.
- 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 Newbold Singer Sargent was an American art patron and the wife of renowned portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Cassatt, the renowned American Impressionist painter known for her depictions of women and children.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Louise Curtis Bok, an American philanthropist and founder of the Curtis Institute of Music.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Elizabeth Baird Bryan, an American figure known primarily in relation to her husband, politician William Jennings Bryan.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, the second wife of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison and former First Lady of the United States.
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E.
Mary
Mary is the birth name of May Morris, the English artisan, designer, and key figure in the Arts and Crafts movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art patron
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | John Singer Sargent ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sargent ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity | visual arts patronage ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an American art patron
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being the wife of portrait painter John Singer Sargent ⓘ |
| occupation | art patron ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | John Singer Sargent ⓘ |
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 Newbold Singer Sargent was an American art patron and the wife of renowned portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Singer Sargent