Mary
E519953
Mary is a central character in W. H. Auden’s long poem "For the Time Being," which reimagines the Nativity story in a modern, philosophical context.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5433879 — 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: [For the Time Being, hasCharacter, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is a fictional character in B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community’s young members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
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B.
Mary
Mary is the birth name of American actress, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds, a major Hollywood star of the mid-20th century.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the middle name of Katherine Mary Dewar, a component of her full personal name.
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D.
Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary J. Blige, the acclaimed American singer, songwriter, and actress often called the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul."
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E.
Mary
Mary is a minor character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom's kind and well-behaved cousin.
- 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 a central character in W. H. Auden’s long poem "For the Time Being," which reimagines the Nativity story in a modern, philosophical context.
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Mary
Mary is a central character in Robert Frost's narrative poem "The Death of the Hired Man," serving as a compassionate and mediating presence between her husband Warren and the returning farmhand Silas.
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B.
Mary
Mary is a central character in the romantic comedy film "About Time," known for her warm, quirky personality and her relationship with the time-traveling protagonist.
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C.
Mary
"Mary" is a 1949 novel by Polish-Jewish writer Sholem Asch that reimagines the life of Jesus through the perspective of his mother.
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D.
Mary
Mary is a fictional character in B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community’s young members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
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E.
Mary
Mary is a central female character in Bruce Springsteen's song "Thunder Road," symbolizing hope, escape, and the possibility of a new life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional representation of biblical figure
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | For the Time Being ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Christian theology
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Nativity ⓘ faith and doubt ⓘ incarnation ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Mary, mother of Jesus
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linked to:
Virgin Mary
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| createdBy | W. H. Auden ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| name | Mary ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | participant in a reimagined Nativity story ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character ⓘ |
| thematicContext |
modern setting
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philosophical context ⓘ |
| workGenreContext | long poem ⓘ |
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 a central character in W. H. Auden’s long poem "For the Time Being," which reimagines the Nativity story in a modern, philosophical context.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.