Mary Alice
E435074
Mary Alice was an American actress best known for her roles in film, television, and theater, including portraying the Oracle in "The Matrix Revolutions."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Alice canonical | 10 |
| Mary Alice Brandon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4386668 — 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 Alice Context triple: [The Matrix Revolutions, starring, Mary Alice]
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A.
Ruth Hopkins
Ruth Hopkins was a member of the prominent Hopkins family of early colonial New England, known primarily through her relationship to Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Stephen Hopkins.
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B.
Marjorie
Marjorie is a feminine given name of French origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Maude Findlay
Maude Findlay is the outspoken, liberal, middle-aged feminist protagonist of the 1970s American sitcom "Maude," portrayed by Bea Arthur.
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D.
Edna Young
Edna Young is known as the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.
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E.
Edna Murphy
Edna Murphy was an American silent film actress active in the 1920s, known for her roles in numerous melodramas and comedies.
- 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 Alice Target entity description: Mary Alice was an American actress best known for her roles in film, television, and theater, including portraying the Oracle in "The Matrix Revolutions."
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A.
Ruth Hopkins
Ruth Hopkins was a member of the prominent Hopkins family of early colonial New England, known primarily through her relationship to Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Stephen Hopkins.
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B.
Marjorie
Marjorie is a feminine given name of French origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Maude Findlay
Maude Findlay is the outspoken, liberal, middle-aged feminist protagonist of the 1970s American sitcom "Maude," portrayed by Bea Arthur.
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D.
Edna Young
Edna Young is known as the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.
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E.
Edna Murphy
Edna Murphy was an American silent film actress active in the 1920s, known for her roles in numerous melodramas and comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
ⓘ
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play ⓘ |
| awardReceivedForWork |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for I'll Fly Away
ⓘ
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Fences ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary Alice Smith ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-12-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-07-27 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mary Alice ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Lettie Bostic in A Different World
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Oracle in The Matrix Revolutions ⓘ Rose Maxson in Fences (stage) ⓘ
linked to:
Fences (1985 play)
|
| notableWork |
A Different World
ⓘ
Fences ⓘ
linked to:
Fences (1985 play)
I'll Fly Away ⓘ Sparkle ⓘ The Matrix Revolutions ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| partOf |
The Matrix film series
ⓘ
linked to:
The Matrix trilogy
|
| placeOfBirth | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| portrayed |
Leticia 'Lettie' Bostic in A Different World
ⓘ
Marguerite Peck in I'll Fly Away ⓘ Oracle in The Matrix Revolutions ⓘ
linked to:
The Oracle in The Matrix Reloaded
|
| residence |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
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 Alice Description of subject: Mary Alice was an American actress best known for her roles in film, television, and theater, including portraying the Oracle in "The Matrix Revolutions."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mary Alice