Black Mary
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Black Mary is a pivotal, spiritually resonant figure in August Wilson’s play "Gem of the Ocean," embodying ancestral memory and the legacy of the Middle Passage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Black Mary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17063243 — 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: Black Mary Context triple: [Gem of the Ocean, featuresCharacter, Black Mary]
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A.
White Nancy
White Nancy is a distinctive white-painted stone folly and local landmark situated on Kerridge Hill overlooking the town of Bollington in Cheshire, England.
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B.
Black Mariah
Black Mariah is a crime boss and recurring supervillain in Marvel Comics, primarily known as an adversary of Luke Cage in Harlem.
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C.
Mary Poole
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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D.
Bessy Savage
Bessy Savage was an English noblewoman best known as the mother of Lord Rochford, a title associated with the influential Boleyn family in Tudor England.
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E.
Countess Cathleen
Countess Cathleen is the self-sacrificing noble heroine of W. B. Yeats’s verse drama, who offers her soul to save her famine-stricken people.
- 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: Black Mary Target entity description: Black Mary is a pivotal, spiritually resonant figure in August Wilson’s play "Gem of the Ocean," embodying ancestral memory and the legacy of the Middle Passage.
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A.
White Nancy
White Nancy is a distinctive white-painted stone folly and local landmark situated on Kerridge Hill overlooking the town of Bollington in Cheshire, England.
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B.
Black Mariah
Black Mariah is a crime boss and recurring supervillain in Marvel Comics, primarily known as an adversary of Luke Cage in Harlem.
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C.
Mary Poole
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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D.
Bessy Savage
Bessy Savage was an English noblewoman best known as the mother of Lord Rochford, a title associated with the influential Boleyn family in Tudor England.
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E.
Countess Cathleen
Countess Cathleen is the self-sacrificing noble heroine of W. B. Yeats’s verse drama, who offers her soul to save her famine-stricken people.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.