Mary Poole
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Mary Poole is the longtime wife of The Cure frontman Robert Smith, known for inspiring several of the band’s songs and for her enduring, largely private relationship with the musician.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Poole canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16675066 — 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 Poole Context triple: [Robert Smith, spouse, Mary Poole]
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A.
Elizabeth Mapp
Elizabeth Mapp is a sharp-tongued, socially ambitious middle-aged woman in a small English town, best known as one of the two rival heroines in E.F. Benson’s comic "Mapp and Lucia" novels.
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B.
Mary Ann Pearce
Mary Ann Pearce is known as the wife of American crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
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C.
Mary Sandys
Mary Sandys was an 18th–19th century British aristocrat who became Marchioness of Downshire through her marriage to Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire.
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D.
Harriet Wheelwright
Harriet Wheelwright is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matriarch and the grandmother of the narrator in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany."
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E.
Mary Bland
Mary Bland was a member of the prominent Virginia Bland family and the mother of Revolutionary-era planter and politician Henry Lee II.
- 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 Poole Target entity description: Mary Poole is the longtime wife of The Cure frontman Robert Smith, known for inspiring several of the band’s songs and for her enduring, largely private relationship with the musician.
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A.
Elizabeth Mapp
Elizabeth Mapp is a sharp-tongued, socially ambitious middle-aged woman in a small English town, best known as one of the two rival heroines in E.F. Benson’s comic "Mapp and Lucia" novels.
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B.
Mary Ann Pearce
Mary Ann Pearce is known as the wife of American crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
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C.
Mary Sandys
Mary Sandys was an 18th–19th century British aristocrat who became Marchioness of Downshire through her marriage to Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire.
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D.
Harriet Wheelwright
Harriet Wheelwright is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matriarch and the grandmother of the narrator in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany."
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E.
Mary Bland
Mary Bland was a member of the prominent Virginia Bland family and the mother of Revolutionary-era planter and politician Henry Lee II.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.