Maryann Burk
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Maryann Burk is best known as the first wife of American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver, with whom she shared a tumultuous early life marked by poverty and his struggles with alcoholism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maryann Burk canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2881353 — 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: Maryann Burk Context triple: [Raymond Carver, spouse, Maryann Burk]
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A.
Maryann Brandon
Maryann Brandon is a film editor best known for her work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including J.J. Abrams–directed projects such as Star Trek (2009) and several Star Wars films.
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B.
Linda Fennimore
Linda Fennimore is an artist best known for creating the cover art for Stephen King’s horror novel "Pet Sematary."
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C.
Rosemary Woodruff
Rosemary Woodruff was an American counterculture figure and activist best known for her involvement in the 1960s psychedelic movement alongside Timothy Leary.
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D.
Cynthia Mort
Cynthia Mort is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for her work in film and television, including projects like "The Brave One" and the biographical drama "Nina."
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E.
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.
- 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: Maryann Burk Target entity description: Maryann Burk is best known as the first wife of American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver, with whom she shared a tumultuous early life marked by poverty and his struggles with alcoholism.
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A.
Maryann Brandon
Maryann Brandon is a film editor best known for her work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including J.J. Abrams–directed projects such as Star Trek (2009) and several Star Wars films.
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B.
Linda Fennimore
Linda Fennimore is an artist best known for creating the cover art for Stephen King’s horror novel "Pet Sematary."
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C.
Rosemary Woodruff
Rosemary Woodruff was an American counterculture figure and activist best known for her involvement in the 1960s psychedelic movement alongside Timothy Leary.
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D.
Cynthia Mort
Cynthia Mort is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for her work in film and television, including projects like "The Brave One" and the biographical drama "Nina."
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Maryann Burk Carver
ⓘ
surface form:
Maryann Carver
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educatedAt | San Jose State University ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Christine Carver
ⓘ
Vance Carver ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced from Raymond Carver ⓘ |
| name | Maryann Burk Carver ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of Raymond Carver
ⓘ
depicting early life with Raymond Carver marked by poverty ⓘ documenting Raymond Carver's struggles with alcoholism ⓘ |
| notableWork | What It Used to Be Like: A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver ⓘ |
| occupation |
teacher
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sharesLifeEventWith | Raymond Carver ⓘ |
| spouse |
Raymond Carver
ⓘ
Raymond Carver ⓘ
surface form:
Raymond Carver Jr.
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| spouseEndTime | 1982 ⓘ |
| spouseStartTime | 1957 ⓘ |
| subjectOf | biographical and critical discussions of Raymond Carver's early life ⓘ |
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: Maryann Burk Description of subject: Maryann Burk is best known as the first wife of American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver, with whom she shared a tumultuous early life marked by poverty and his struggles with alcoholism.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.