Mary
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Mary is the given name of Lady Mary Palliser, a fictional aristocratic character from Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5060439 — 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 Context triple: [Lady Mary Palliser, givenName, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is a central figure in Christianity, venerated as the mother of Jesus and often honored as the Virgin Mary.
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Mary
Mary is the given first name of Margaret Truman, the daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and a noted author and singer.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the given name of the American suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, known for her bestselling mystery and thriller books.
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D.
Mary
Mary is the middle name of Katherine Mary Dewar, a component of her full personal name.
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E.
Mary
Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger and one of the early settlers of Plymouth Colony in 17th-century 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 Target entity description: Mary is the given name of Lady Mary Palliser, a fictional aristocratic character from Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Shelley, the English novelist best known as the author of "Frankenstein."
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B.
Mary
Mary is the given name of the American suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, known for her bestselling mystery and thriller books.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th-century English writer and advocate of women's rights.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Cassatt, the renowned American Impressionist painter known for her depictions of women and children.
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Mary
Mary is the birth name of the acclaimed British actress Vivien Leigh, renowned for her roles in "Gone with the Wind" and "A Streetcar Named Desire."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Palliser novels
ⓘ
linked to:
Palliser series
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| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Anthony Trollope ⓘ |
| familyName | Palliser ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Palliser series ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | Victorian novel ⓘ |
| occupation | aristocrat ⓘ |
| title | Lady ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Mary is the given name of Lady Mary Palliser, a fictional aristocratic character from Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.