Mary Whyte
E500545
Mary Whyte is the mother of Pink Floyd co-founder and bassist Roger Waters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Whyte canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5199491 — 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 Whyte Context triple: [Roger Waters, parent, Mary Whyte]
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A.
Mary Frost
Mary Frost is a British figure best known as the mother of actor and model Rafferty Law, linking her to the UK entertainment and fashion scene.
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B.
Margaret Drummond
Margaret Drummond was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the queen consort of King David II of Scotland.
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C.
Margaret Durkan
Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
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D.
Caroline Carmichael McIntosh
Caroline Carmichael McIntosh was the second wife of U.S. President Millard Fillmore, whom he married after leaving office.
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E.
Jean Grahame
Jean Grahame is the mother of American actress Gloria Grahame, known for her work in classic Hollywood cinema.
- 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 Whyte Target entity description: Mary Whyte is the mother of Pink Floyd co-founder and bassist Roger Waters.
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A.
Mary Frost
Mary Frost is a British figure best known as the mother of actor and model Rafferty Law, linking her to the UK entertainment and fashion scene.
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B.
Margaret Drummond
Margaret Drummond was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the queen consort of King David II of Scotland.
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C.
Margaret Durkan
Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
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D.
Caroline Carmichael McIntosh
Caroline Carmichael McIntosh was the second wife of U.S. President Millard Fillmore, whom he married after leaving office.
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E.
Jean Grahame
Jean Grahame is the mother of American actress Gloria Grahame, known for her work in classic Hollywood cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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rock band ⓘ |
| child | Roger Waters ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
progressive rock
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psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pink Floyd ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Whyte ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Roger Waters ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 Whyte Description of subject: Mary Whyte is the mother of Pink Floyd co-founder and bassist Roger Waters.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.