Marston
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Marston is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as literature, law, and entertainment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marston canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4860672 — 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: Marston Context triple: [John Marston, familyName, Marston]
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A.
Harston
Harston is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England.
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B.
Moston
Moston is a residential district in north Manchester, England, known for its mix of traditional terraced housing, local parks, and community amenities.
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C.
Stansfield
Stansfield is a small rural village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
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D.
Westcott
Westcott is a village in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England, known for its rural setting in the Surrey Hills.
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E.
Denston
Denston is a small rural village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern 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: Marston Target entity description: Marston is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as literature, law, and entertainment.
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A.
Harston
Harston is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England.
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B.
Moston
Moston is a residential district in north Manchester, England, known for its mix of traditional terraced housing, local parks, and community amenities.
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C.
Stansfield
Stansfield is a small rural village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
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D.
Westcott
Westcott is a village in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England, known for its rural setting in the Surrey Hills.
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E.
Denston
Denston is a small rural village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Marston ⓘ |
| genre |
Jacobean drama
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historical fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Ann Marston
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Edward Marston ⓘ George Marston ⓘ Jeffrey Marston ⓘ John Marston ⓘ Patricia Marston ⓘ Philip Bourke Marston ⓘ William Moulton Marston ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | England ⓘ |
| hasUsage | English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| notableFor |
creating Wonder Woman
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participation in Antarctic expeditions ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Malcontent ⓘ |
| occupation |
archer
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artist ⓘ beauty queen ⓘ comic book writer ⓘ dramatist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ novelist ⓘ physician ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ psychologist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
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: Marston Description of subject: Marston is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as literature, law, and entertainment.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.