Mary Ellen Reynolds
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Mary Ellen Reynolds, better known by her stage name Marilyn Miller, was a celebrated American Broadway musical star of the early 20th century renowned for her singing, dancing, and charismatic performances in Ziegfeld Follies and hit shows like "Sally."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Ellen Reynolds canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11083895 — 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 Ellen Reynolds Context triple: [Marilyn Miller, birthName, Mary Ellen Reynolds]
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A.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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B.
Mary Louise Davis
Mary Louise Davis is the mother of American stand-up comedian, writer, and filmmaker Louis C.K.
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C.
Mary Jo Salter
Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, editor, and professor known for her formally accomplished, accessible verse and contributions to contemporary poetry.
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D.
Margaret Sexton
Margaret Sexton was the wife of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, a prominent figure in the Spanish–American War.
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E.
Marilee Earle
Marilee Earle is an actress best known for her role in the 1958 Western film "Terror in a Texas Town."
- 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 Ellen Reynolds Target entity description: Mary Ellen Reynolds, better known by her stage name Marilyn Miller, was a celebrated American Broadway musical star of the early 20th century renowned for her singing, dancing, and charismatic performances in Ziegfeld Follies and hit shows like "Sally."
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A.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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B.
Mary Louise Davis
Mary Louise Davis is the mother of American stand-up comedian, writer, and filmmaker Louis C.K.
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C.
Mary Jo Salter
Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, editor, and professor known for her formally accomplished, accessible verse and contributions to contemporary poetry.
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D.
Margaret Sexton
Margaret Sexton was the wife of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, a prominent figure in the Spanish–American War.
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E.
Marilee Earle
Marilee Earle is an actress best known for her role in the 1958 Western film "Terror in a Texas Town."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dancer
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human ⓘ musical theatre actor ⓘ singer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mary Ellen Reynolds ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary Ellen Reynolds ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource | Broadway historical records ⓘ |
| employer | Ziegfeld Follies ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Broadway theatre
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musical theatre ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasStageName | Marilyn Miller ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
charismatic stage performances
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dancing ⓘ singing ⓘ |
| notableRole | title role in the musical "Sally" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Rosalie
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Sally ⓘ Sunny ⓘ Ziegfeld Follies ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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dancer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| partOf | American theatre history ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation | Broadway ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Ellen Reynolds Description of subject: Mary Ellen Reynolds, better known by her stage name Marilyn Miller, was a celebrated American Broadway musical star of the early 20th century renowned for her singing, dancing, and charismatic performances in Ziegfeld Follies and hit shows like "Sally."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.