Mary James
E236320
Mary James was the first wife of acclaimed American film director Vincente Minnelli, known primarily for her brief marriage to him before his later, more famous unions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary James canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1191549 — 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 James Context triple: [Vincente Minnelli, spouse, Mary James]
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A.
Mary Walsh James
Mary Walsh James was the mother of novelist Henry James and a member of the prominent 19th-century James family known for its intellectual and literary influence.
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B.
Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson was an American socialite best known for her controversial early-19th-century marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger brother, Jérôme.
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C.
Mary Meredith
Mary Meredith is a fictional character from the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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D.
Elizabeth Hanks
Elizabeth Hanks is an American actress and writer, known for her supporting roles in films like "Forrest Gump" and for being the daughter of actor Tom Hanks.
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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 James Target entity description: Mary James was the first wife of acclaimed American film director Vincente Minnelli, known primarily for her brief marriage to him before his later, more famous unions.
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A.
Mary Walsh James
Mary Walsh James was the mother of novelist Henry James and a member of the prominent 19th-century James family known for its intellectual and literary influence.
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B.
Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson was an American socialite best known for her controversial early-19th-century marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger brother, Jérôme.
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C.
Mary Meredith
Mary Meredith is a fictional character from the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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D.
Elizabeth Hanks
Elizabeth Hanks is an American actress and writer, known for her supporting roles in films like "Forrest Gump" and for being the daughter of actor Tom Hanks.
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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 (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | unknown ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | unknown ⓘ |
| marriageEndToVincenteMinnelli | unknown ⓘ |
| marriageStartToVincenteMinnelli | unknown ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Vincente Minnelli ⓘ |
| occupation | unknown ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | unknown ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | unknown ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | first wife of Vincente Minnelli ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary James
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Vincente Minnelli ⓘ |
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 James Description of subject: Mary James was the first wife of acclaimed American film director Vincente Minnelli, known primarily for her brief marriage to him before his later, more famous unions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Vincente Minnelli