Mary Boland
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Mary Boland was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Boland canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5321568 — 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 Boland Context triple: [The Women (1939 film), starred, Mary Boland]
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A.
Mary Cleary
Mary Cleary was the wife of Commodore John Barry, an early U.S. naval officer often called the "Father of the American Navy."
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B.
Mary Fitzgerald
Mary Fitzgerald is the daughter of Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, placing her in the prominent Fitzgerald family associated with early 20th-century Boston politics.
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C.
Katherine Parnell
Katherine Parnell was a 19th-century Irishwoman best known as the sister of British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient Sir Evelyn Wood.
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D.
Mary Durkan
Mary Durkan is an Irish politician known for her involvement in local and national public affairs.
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E.
Leonora O’Reilly
Leonora O’Reilly was an American labor organizer and suffragist who became a prominent figure in the early 20th-century women’s rights and labor movements.
- 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 Boland Target entity description: Mary Boland was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema.
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A.
Mary Cleary
Mary Cleary was the wife of Commodore John Barry, an early U.S. naval officer often called the "Father of the American Navy."
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B.
Mary Fitzgerald
Mary Fitzgerald is the daughter of Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, placing her in the prominent Fitzgerald family associated with early 20th-century Boston politics.
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C.
Katherine Parnell
Katherine Parnell was a 19th-century Irishwoman best known as the sister of British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient Sir Evelyn Wood.
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D.
Mary Durkan
Mary Durkan is an Irish politician known for her involvement in local and national public affairs.
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E.
Leonora O’Reilly
Leonora O’Reilly was an American labor organizer and suffragist who became a prominent figure in the early 20th-century women’s rights and labor movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Boland Description of subject: Mary Boland was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.