Mary Crosby
E158553
Mary Crosby is an American actress best known for her role as Kristin Shepard on the television series "Dallas."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Crosby canonical | 21 |
| Mary Frances Crosby | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T838564 — 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 Crosby Context triple: [Bing Crosby, child, Mary Crosby]
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A.
Caroline Allpass
Caroline Allpass was the first wife of British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe, whose life was cut short in a car accident in the early 1970s.
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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Ann Fleming
Ann Fleming was a British socialite and literary hostess best known as the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and for her influential role in mid-20th-century London cultural circles.
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D.
Loretta Rogers
Loretta Rogers is a Canadian philanthropist and longtime director of Rogers Communications, known as the widow of company founder Ted Rogers.
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E.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
- 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 Crosby Target entity description: Mary Crosby is an American actress best known for her role as Kristin Shepard on the television series "Dallas."
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A.
Caroline Allpass
Caroline Allpass was the first wife of British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe, whose life was cut short in a car accident in the early 1970s.
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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Ann Fleming
Ann Fleming was a British socialite and literary hostess best known as the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and for her influential role in mid-20th-century London cultural circles.
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D.
Loretta Rogers
Loretta Rogers is a Canadian philanthropist and longtime director of Rogers Communications, known as the widow of company founder Ted Rogers.
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E.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century television
ⓘ
21st-century television ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Dallas
ⓘ
linked to:
Dallas, Texas
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Beverly Hills High School
ⓘ
University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| familyName | Crosby ⓘ |
| father | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| genre | television ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | Who shot J.R.? ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Kathryn Grant ⓘ |
| name | Mary Crosby ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying Kristin Shepard on Dallas ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dallas
ⓘ
Kristin Shepard ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| role | Kristin Shepard ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling |
Harry Crosby
ⓘ
Mary Frances Crosby ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Crosby
Nathaniel Crosby ⓘ |
| spouse | Mark Brodka ⓘ |
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 Crosby Description of subject: Mary Crosby is an American actress best known for her role as Kristin Shepard on the television series "Dallas."
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.