Mary Hanson
E461088
Mary Hanson was the mother of Harlem Renaissance novelist Nella Larsen and part of the family background that shaped Larsen’s life and work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Hanson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2483856 — 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 Hanson Context triple: [Nella Larsen, mother, Mary Hanson]
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A.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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B.
Mary Lamson
Mary Lamson was the wife of Edwin M. Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Elizabeth Hanks
Elizabeth Hanks is an American actress and writer, known for her supporting roles in films like "Forrest Gump" and for being the daughter of actor Tom Hanks.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Horner
Mary Elizabeth Horner, later known as Mary Horner Lyell, was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell.
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E.
Mary Hooker
Mary Hooker was the daughter of prominent early American theologian Sarah Pierpont Edwards and thus a member of the influential Edwards family in colonial New England.
- 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 Hanson Target entity description: Mary Hanson was the mother of Harlem Renaissance novelist Nella Larsen and part of the family background that shaped Larsen’s life and work.
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A.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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B.
Mary Lamson
Mary Lamson was the wife of Edwin M. Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Elizabeth Hanks
Elizabeth Hanks is an American actress and writer, known for her supporting roles in films like "Forrest Gump" and for being the daughter of actor Tom Hanks.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Horner
Mary Elizabeth Horner, later known as Mary Horner Lyell, was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell.
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E.
Mary Hooker
Mary Hooker was the daughter of prominent early American theologian Sarah Pierpont Edwards and thus a member of the influential Edwards family in colonial New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Nella Larsen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Denmark ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Danish ⓘ |
| familyBackground | Mary Hanson ⓘ |
| floruit |
early 20th century
ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Hanson ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of novelist Nella Larsen ⓘ |
| occupation | domestic worker ⓘ |
| partOf | family background of Nella Larsen ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Denmark ⓘ |
| relative | Peter Larsen ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Peter Larsen ⓘ |
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 Hanson Description of subject: Mary Hanson was the mother of Harlem Renaissance novelist Nella Larsen and part of the family background that shaped Larsen’s life and work.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.