Mary Boleyn
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Mary Boleyn was an English noblewoman best known as the sister of Queen Anne Boleyn and for being a mistress of King Henry VIII.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Boleyn canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3547859 — 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 Boleyn Context triple: [Anne Boleyn, sibling, Mary Boleyn]
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A.
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, was an English noblewoman of the early 16th century best known as the mother of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII and queen consort of England.
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B.
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn was the second wife of King Henry VIII and the Queen of England whose execution and marriage to the king were central to the English Reformation and the break from the Catholic Church.
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C.
Catherine Howard
Catherine Howard was the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, remembered for her brief queenship and execution for alleged adultery.
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D.
Dorothy Stanbury
Dorothy Stanbury is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for her quiet strength, moral integrity, and complex romantic struggles within Victorian society.
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E.
Frances Cromwell
Frances Cromwell was the youngest daughter of English statesman and Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, known for her position within the Protectorate court and her politically significant marriage into the English gentry.
- 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 Boleyn Target entity description: Mary Boleyn was an English noblewoman best known as the sister of Queen Anne Boleyn and for being a mistress of King Henry VIII.
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A.
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, was an English noblewoman of the early 16th century best known as the mother of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII and queen consort of England.
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B.
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn was the second wife of King Henry VIII and the Queen of England whose execution and marriage to the king were central to the English Reformation and the break from the Catholic Church.
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C.
Catherine Howard
Catherine Howard was the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, remembered for her brief queenship and execution for alleged adultery.
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D.
Dorothy Stanbury
Dorothy Stanbury is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for her quiet strength, moral integrity, and complex romantic struggles within Victorian society.
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E.
Frances Cromwell
Frances Cromwell was the youngest daughter of English statesman and Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, known for her position within the Protectorate court and her politically significant marriage into the English gentry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noblewoman
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Anne Boleyn
ⓘ
Catherine of Aragon ⓘ English Reformation ⓘ Francis I of France ⓘ Henry VIII of England ⓘ |
| causeOfNotoriety | romantic relationships with monarchs ⓘ |
| child |
Katherine Carey
ⓘ
surface form:
Catherine Carey
Henry Carey ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| court |
Court of Henry VIII
ⓘ
surface form:
Court of Henry VIII of England
court of Francis I of France ⓘ
surface form:
French royal court of Francis I
|
| dateOfBirth | circa 1499 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 19 July 1543 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | French royal court ⓘ |
| era |
Tudor England
ⓘ
surface form:
Tudor period
|
| familyName |
House of Boleyn
ⓘ
surface form:
Boleyn
|
| father | Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| marriageDate |
1534 (to William Stafford)
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4 February 1520 (to William Carey) ⓘ |
| mother | Elizabeth Howard ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
House of Boleyn
ⓘ
surface form:
Boleyn family
|
| nobleTitle | Lady ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being mistress of King Francis I of France
ⓘ
being mistress of King Henry VIII of England ⓘ being sister of Queen Anne Boleyn ⓘ |
| notableWork | role at the English court of Henry VIII ⓘ |
| occupation |
courtier
ⓘ
lady-in-waiting ⓘ |
| partOf |
House of Boleyn
ⓘ
surface form:
Boleyn family
|
| placeOfBirth |
Blickling Hall
ⓘ
surface form:
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
|
| placeOfDeath | England ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne Boleyn
ⓘ
lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon ⓘ |
| relative | Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
English royal court
ⓘ
Hever Castle ⓘ
surface form:
Hever Castle, Kent
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling |
Anne Boleyn
ⓘ
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford ⓘ |
| spouse |
William Carey
ⓘ
William Stafford ⓘ |
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 Boleyn Description of subject: Mary Boleyn was an English noblewoman best known as the sister of Queen Anne Boleyn and for being a mistress of King Henry VIII.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.