Mary Sanderson
E323391
Mary Sanderson is one of the three comedic witch sisters in the fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," known for her quirky personality and keen sense of smell for tracking children.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Sanderson canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3056280 — 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 Sanderson Context triple: [Hocus Pocus, mainCharacter, Mary Sanderson]
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A.
Magdalene Shaw
Magdalene Shaw is a sharp-witted, tough matriarch and career criminal in the Fast & Furious franchise, known as the mother of Deckard and Owen Shaw.
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B.
Susannah Harker
Susannah Harker is a British actress best known for her television work in period dramas and series such as "House of Cards" and "Pride and Prejudice."
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C.
Emma Sandys
Emma Sandys was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for her richly detailed portraits of women and children.
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D.
Dolly Sharp
Dolly Sharp was an American adult film actress best known for her role in the landmark 1972 pornographic film "Deep Throat."
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E.
Mary Darnall
Mary Darnall was the wife of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Charles Carroll of Carrollton and a member of a prominent Maryland Catholic family.
- 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 Sanderson Target entity description: Mary Sanderson is one of the three comedic witch sisters in the fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," known for her quirky personality and keen sense of smell for tracking children.
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A.
Magdalene Shaw
Magdalene Shaw is a sharp-witted, tough matriarch and career criminal in the Fast & Furious franchise, known as the mother of Deckard and Owen Shaw.
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B.
Susannah Harker
Susannah Harker is a British actress best known for her television work in period dramas and series such as "House of Cards" and "Pride and Prejudice."
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C.
Emma Sandys
Emma Sandys was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for her richly detailed portraits of women and children.
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D.
Dolly Sharp
Dolly Sharp was an American adult film actress best known for her role in the landmark 1972 pornographic film "Deep Throat."
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E.
Mary Darnall
Mary Darnall was the wife of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Charles Carroll of Carrollton and a member of a prominent Maryland Catholic family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ witch ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Hocus Pocus
ⓘ
Hocus Pocus 2 ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Salem, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Salem, Massachusetts (fictional depiction)
|
| costumeColor | red and purple dress ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
David Kirschner
ⓘ
Mick Garris ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| filmDebutYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film character
ⓘ
fantasy film character ⓘ |
| hairColor | black ⓘ |
| hasHumorStyle | physical comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sanderson sisters ⓘ |
| notableAbility | tracking children by scent ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
keen sense of smell for tracking children
ⓘ
quirky personality ⓘ |
| occupation | witch ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hocus Pocus
ⓘ
surface form:
Hocus Pocus franchise
|
| portrayedBy | Kathy Najimy ⓘ |
| returnAppearanceYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| setting | Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| sibling |
Sarah Sanderson
ⓘ
Winifred Sanderson ⓘ |
| species | human (witch) ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family audiences ⓘ |
| uses | broomstick substitute ⓘ |
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 Sanderson Description of subject: Mary Sanderson is one of the three comedic witch sisters in the fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," known for her quirky personality and keen sense of smell for tracking children.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.