Mary Ellen Trainor
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Mary Ellen Trainor was an American actress known for her supporting roles in popular 1980s and 1990s films such as "The Goonies," "Lethal Weapon," and "Die Hard."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Ellen Trainor canonical | 3 |
| Nurse Virginia Alves | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T273171 — 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 Trainor Context triple: [Robert Zemeckis, spouse, Mary Ellen Trainor]
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A.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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B.
Mary Fowler Brennan
Mary Fowler Brennan was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter.
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C.
Kimberly S. Budd
Kimberly S. Budd is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
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D.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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E.
Catherine Ann Dunn
Catherine Ann Dunn is known as the wife of American politician and four-time New York governor Al Smith.
- 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 Trainor Target entity description: Mary Ellen Trainor was an American actress known for her supporting roles in popular 1980s and 1990s films such as "The Goonies," "Lethal Weapon," and "Die Hard."
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A.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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B.
Mary Fowler Brennan
Mary Fowler Brennan was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter.
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C.
Kimberly S. Budd
Kimberly S. Budd is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
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D.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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E.
Catherine Ann Dunn
Catherine Ann Dunn is known as the wife of American politician and four-time New York governor Al Smith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Ellen Trainor Description of subject: Mary Ellen Trainor was an American actress known for her supporting roles in popular 1980s and 1990s films such as "The Goonies," "Lethal Weapon," and "Die Hard."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nurse Virginia Alves