Mary Singleton
E522023
Mary Singleton was the mother of renowned American colonial-era portrait painter John Singleton Copley.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Rebecca Singleton | 1 |
| Mary Singleton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2967951 — 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 Singleton Context triple: [John Singleton Copley, mother, Mary Singleton]
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A.
Mary Robbins
Mary Robbins is known as the mother of American actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins.
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B.
Marianne Patterson
Marianne Patterson was an American socialite of the early 19th century, known for her brief and controversial marriage into British aristocracy.
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C.
June Mulgrew
June Mulgrew is a New Zealand woman best known as the second wife of famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
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D.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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E.
Mary Young
Mary Young, better known as Mary Pickersgill, was the American flag maker who sewed the large Star-Spangled Banner flag that inspired the United States national anthem.
- 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 Singleton Target entity description: Mary Singleton was the mother of renowned American colonial-era portrait painter John Singleton Copley.
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A.
Mary Robbins
Mary Robbins is known as the mother of American actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins.
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B.
Marianne Patterson
Marianne Patterson was an American socialite of the early 19th century, known for her brief and controversial marriage into British aristocracy.
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C.
June Mulgrew
June Mulgrew is a New Zealand woman best known as the second wife of famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
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D.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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E.
Mary Young
Mary Young, better known as Mary Pickersgill, was the American flag maker who sewed the large Star-Spangled Banner flag that inspired the United States national anthem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | John Singleton Copley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | John Singleton Copley ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of John Singleton Copley ⓘ |
| occupation | tobacconist ⓘ |
| relative | John Singleton Copley ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston
ⓘ
Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Richard Copley ⓘ |
| timePeriod | colonial America ⓘ |
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 Singleton Description of subject: Mary Singleton was the mother of renowned American colonial-era portrait painter John Singleton Copley.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mary Singleton