Mary Arden
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Mary Arden was the mother of playwright William Shakespeare and a member of a prominent Warwickshire farming family in 16th-century England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Arden canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4625184 — 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 Arden Context triple: [Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, burialPlaceOf, Mary Arden]
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A.
Barbara Standish
Barbara Standish was the wife of Mayflower military leader Captain Myles Standish and an early settler in Plymouth Colony.
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B.
Jane Spencer
Jane Spencer is a central love interest and recurring comedic character in the slapstick parody film series "The Naked Gun," known for her involvement with bumbling detective Frank Drebin.
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C.
Anne Walmesley
Anne Walmesley was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century best known as the mother of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, a prominent statesman under Charles II and William III.
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D.
Mary Allerton
Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger who arrived in 1620 as a child and later became one of the longest-lived survivors of the original Plymouth colonists.
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E.
Anne Mortimer
Anne Mortimer was an English noblewoman of the late 14th and early 15th centuries whose Plantagenet lineage made her a key dynastic link in the Yorkist claim to the English throne.
- 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 Arden Target entity description: Mary Arden was the mother of playwright William Shakespeare and a member of a prominent Warwickshire farming family in 16th-century England.
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A.
Barbara Standish
Barbara Standish was the wife of Mayflower military leader Captain Myles Standish and an early settler in Plymouth Colony.
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B.
Jane Spencer
Jane Spencer is a central love interest and recurring comedic character in the slapstick parody film series "The Naked Gun," known for her involvement with bumbling detective Frank Drebin.
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C.
Anne Walmesley
Anne Walmesley was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century best known as the mother of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, a prominent statesman under Charles II and William III.
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D.
Mary Allerton
Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger who arrived in 1620 as a child and later became one of the longest-lived survivors of the original Plymouth colonists.
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E.
Anne Mortimer
Anne Mortimer was an English noblewoman of the late 14th and early 15th centuries whose Plantagenet lineage made her a key dynastic link in the Yorkist claim to the English throne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
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 Arden Description of subject: Mary Arden was the mother of playwright William Shakespeare and a member of a prominent Warwickshire farming family in 16th-century England.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.