Mary
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"Mary" is a 1949 novel by Polish-Jewish writer Sholem Asch that reimagines the life of Jesus through the perspective of his mother.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3004936 — 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 Context triple: [Sholem Asch, notableWork, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is a significant urban and economic center in southeastern Turkmenistan, known for its role in the country’s natural gas and cotton industries.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Shelley, the English novelist best known as the author of "Frankenstein."
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Mary
Mary is the birth name of American actress Billie Burke, best known for playing Glinda the Good Witch in "The Wizard of Oz."
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Church Terrell, a prominent African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Mary
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, was a daughter of King George V and Queen Mary of the United Kingdom and a prominent British royal figure in the early to mid-20th century.
- 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 Target entity description: "Mary" is a 1949 novel by Polish-Jewish writer Sholem Asch that reimagines the life of Jesus through the perspective of his mother.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of the American suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, known for her bestselling mystery and thriller books.
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Mary
Mary is a fictional character in B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community’s young members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Shelley, the English novelist best known as the author of "Frankenstein."
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Mary
Mary is a central figure in Christianity, venerated as the mother of Jesus and often honored as the Virgin Mary.
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Mary
Mary is the first name of the American writer better known as Flannery O'Connor, a major figure in 20th-century Southern Gothic literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| author | Sholem Asch ⓘ |
| authorEthnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Polish ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Jesus ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Poland ⓘ |
| depicts |
Jesus
ⓘ
Virgin Mary ⓘ
surface form:
Mary, mother of Jesus
early Christian community ⓘ |
| followedBy |
The Nazarene
ⓘ
surface form:
The Nazarene (novel)
|
| genre |
historical novel
ⓘ
religious fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Joseph
ⓘ
disciples of Jesus ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Jewish–Christian dialogue in the 20th century ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMoralFocus |
redemption
ⓘ
spiritual struggle ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | female perspective on Jesus’s life ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSubject | New Testament ⓘ |
| hasSubject | life of Jesus as seen by his mother ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Jewish Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Jewish–Christian relations
faith ⓘ motherhood ⓘ religious identity ⓘ suffering ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Mary ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Gospels
ⓘ
surface form:
Christian Gospels
Jewish religious tradition ⓘ |
| literaryForm | narrative fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | 20th-century Jewish literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Virgin Mary
ⓘ
surface form:
Mary, mother of Jesus
|
| narrativePerspective |
Virgin Mary
ⓘ
surface form:
Mary, mother of Jesus
|
| originalLanguage | Yiddish ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sholem Asch’s Christian trilogy
ⓘ
surface form:
Sholem Asch’s New Testament trilogy
|
| precededBy |
The Apostle
ⓘ
surface form:
The Apostle (novel)
|
| publicationYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1st century ⓘ |
| settingRegion |
Roman province of Judea
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Judea
|
| timeOfPublication | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: "Mary" is a 1949 novel by Polish-Jewish writer Sholem Asch that reimagines the life of Jesus through the perspective of his mother.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sholem Asch