Mary Ingalls
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Mary Ingalls is a character in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s "Little House" series, portrayed as the responsible, gentle older sister of Laura who later loses her sight and attends a school for the blind.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Ingalls canonical | 13 |
| Mary Amelia Ingalls | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5228807 — 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 Ingalls Context triple: [Little House on the Prairie, mainCharacter, Mary Ingalls]
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A.
Caroline Ingalls
Caroline Ingalls is the resilient frontier mother of the Ingalls family in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s "Little House" series, known for her strength, practicality, and moral guidance.
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B.
Charles Ingalls
Charles Ingalls is the hardworking, compassionate frontier father in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s "Little House" series, known for his strong moral character and devotion to his family.
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C.
Harry Creighton Ingalls
Harry Creighton Ingalls was an American architect best known for designing notable early 20th-century theaters, including the Hayes Theater in New York City.
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D.
Jo March
Jo March is the fiercely independent, imaginative, and strong-willed second March sister who dreams of becoming a writer in Louisa May Alcott’s classic story "Little Women."
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E.
Jim Burden
Jim Burden is the reflective, middle-aged lawyer who serves as the nostalgic first-person narrator of Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," recounting his childhood on the Nebraska prairie and his relationship with Ántonia Shimerda.
- 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 Ingalls Target entity description: Mary Ingalls is a character in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s "Little House" series, portrayed as the responsible, gentle older sister of Laura who later loses her sight and attends a school for the blind.
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A.
Caroline Ingalls
Caroline Ingalls is the resilient frontier mother of the Ingalls family in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s "Little House" series, known for her strength, practicality, and moral guidance.
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B.
Charles Ingalls
Charles Ingalls is the hardworking, compassionate frontier father in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s "Little House" series, known for his strong moral character and devotion to his family.
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C.
Harry Creighton Ingalls
Harry Creighton Ingalls was an American architect best known for designing notable early 20th-century theaters, including the Hayes Theater in New York City.
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D.
Jo March
Jo March is the fiercely independent, imaginative, and strong-willed second March sister who dreams of becoming a writer in Louisa May Alcott’s classic story "Little Women."
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E.
Jim Burden
Jim Burden is the reflective, middle-aged lawyer who serves as the nostalgic first-person narrator of Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," recounting his childhood on the Nebraska prairie and his relationship with Ántonia Shimerda.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
By the Shores of Silver Lake
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Farmer Boy (mentioned) ⓘ Little House in the Big Woods ⓘ Little House on the Prairie ⓘ Little House series ⓘ Little Town on the Prairie ⓘ
linked to:
Little House on the Prairie
On the Banks of Plum Creek ⓘ These Happy Golden Years ⓘ |
| attends | school for the blind ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Mary Amelia Ingalls
ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Ingalls
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| characterTrait |
dutiful
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gentle ⓘ responsible ⓘ |
| childOf |
Caroline Ingalls
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Charles Ingalls ⓘ |
| creator | Laura Ingalls Wilder ⓘ |
| disability | blindness ⓘ |
| education |
Iowa College for the Blind (fictionalized as a school for the blind)
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School
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| familyName | Ingalls ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| notableEvent | loses her sight ⓘ |
| role | older sister of Laura Ingalls ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Carrie Ingalls
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Charles Frederick Ingalls ⓘ
linked to:
Charles Ingalls
Grace Ingalls ⓘ Laura Ingalls ⓘ
linked to:
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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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 Ingalls Description of subject: Mary Ingalls is a character in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s "Little House" series, portrayed as the responsible, gentle older sister of Laura who later loses her sight and attends a school for the blind.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mary Ingalls
linked to: Mary Ingalls