Mary Travers
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Mary Travers was an American folk singer best known as one-third of the influential 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Travers canonical | 9 |
| Mary Allin Travers | 1 |
| Mary Libbie Travers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4724167 — 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 Travers Context triple: [Peter, Paul and Mary, member, Mary Travers]
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A.
Annie Ross
Annie Ross was a Scottish-American jazz singer and actress best known as a member of the vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and for her work in film and theater.
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B.
Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson was an acclaimed American jazz and pop vocalist known for her sophisticated phrasing, emotional depth, and a career spanning over five decades.
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C.
Judee Sill
Judee Sill was an American singer-songwriter of the early 1970s known for her intricate, spiritually themed folk-pop compositions and her status as one of the first artists on David Geffen’s Asylum Records label.
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D.
Jo Danville
Jo Danville is a seasoned, empathetic forensic investigator and former FBI criminalist who joins the New York crime lab team in the television series CSI: NY.
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E.
Mary Allyne Otis
Mary Allyne Otis was the mother of American playwright and Revolutionary-era political writer Mercy Otis Warren and a member of the prominent Otis family of colonial Massachusetts.
- 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 Travers Target entity description: Mary Travers was an American folk singer best known as one-third of the influential 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary.
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A.
Annie Ross
Annie Ross was a Scottish-American jazz singer and actress best known as a member of the vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and for her work in film and theater.
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B.
Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson was an acclaimed American jazz and pop vocalist known for her sophisticated phrasing, emotional depth, and a career spanning over five decades.
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C.
Judee Sill
Judee Sill was an American singer-songwriter of the early 1970s known for her intricate, spiritually themed folk-pop compositions and her status as one of the first artists on David Geffen’s Asylum Records label.
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D.
Jo Danville
Jo Danville is a seasoned, empathetic forensic investigator and former FBI criminalist who joins the New York crime lab team in the television series CSI: NY.
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E.
Mary Allyne Otis
Mary Allyne Otis was the mother of American playwright and Revolutionary-era political writer Mercy Otis Warren and a member of the prominent Otis family of colonial Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American singer
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folk singer ⓘ human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Umpawaug Cemetery, Redding, Connecticut, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from leukemia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-11-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2009-09-16 ⓘ |
| familyName | Travers ⓘ |
| fullName |
Mary Allin Travers
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linked to:
Mary Travers
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| genre |
folk music
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protest music ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hairColor | blonde ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
album A Song Will Rise
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album Album 1700 ⓘ album In Concert ⓘ album In the Wind ⓘ album Peter, Paul and Mary ⓘ solo album All My Choices ⓘ solo album Mary ⓘ solo album Morning Glory ⓘ |
| influenced | American folk revival of the 1960s ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Peter, Paul and Mary ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one-third of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blowin' in the Wind
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If I Had a Hammer ⓘ Puff, the Magic Dragon ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performedAt |
1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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linked to:
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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| placeOfBirth |
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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linked to:
Louisville, Kentucky
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| placeOfDeath |
Danbury, Connecticut, United States
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linked to:
Danbury, Connecticut
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| politicalActivity |
anti–Vietnam War activist
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civil rights movement supporter ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| residence |
Greenwich Village, New York City, United States
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linked to:
Greenwich Village
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Barry Feinstein
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Ethan Robbins ⓘ Robert Palladino ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Travers Description of subject: Mary Travers was an American folk singer best known as one-third of the influential 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mary Travers
linked to: Mary Travers