Mary Haines
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Mary Haines is the gracious, upper-class New York wife and mother whose marital troubles and friendships drive the plot of the 1939 film "The Women."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Haines canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5321558 — 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 Haines Context triple: [The Women (1939 film), mainCharacter, Mary Haines]
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A.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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B.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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C.
Elizabeth Hanks
Elizabeth Hanks is an American actress and writer, known for her supporting roles in films like "Forrest Gump" and for being the daughter of actor Tom Hanks.
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D.
Mary Hanson
Mary Hanson was the mother of Harlem Renaissance novelist Nella Larsen and part of the family background that shaped Larsen’s life and work.
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E.
Marion Sparks
Marion Sparks is a songwriter best known as the original composer of the blues standard "Every Day I Have the Blues."
- 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 Haines Target entity description: Mary Haines is the gracious, upper-class New York wife and mother whose marital troubles and friendships drive the plot of the 1939 film "The Women."
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A.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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B.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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C.
Elizabeth Hanks
Elizabeth Hanks is an American actress and writer, known for her supporting roles in films like "Forrest Gump" and for being the daughter of actor Tom Hanks.
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D.
Mary Hanson
Mary Hanson was the mother of Harlem Renaissance novelist Nella Larsen and part of the family background that shaped Larsen’s life and work.
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E.
Marion Sparks
Marion Sparks is a songwriter best known as the original composer of the blues standard "Every Day I Have the Blues."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | The Women (1939 film) ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Women (1939 film) ⓘ |
| centralTo | plot of The Women (1939 film) ⓘ |
| createdFor | The Women (play) ⓘ |
| creator | Clare Boothe Luce ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | comedy-drama character ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Countess De Lave
ⓘ
Edith Potter ⓘ Miriam Aarons ⓘ Peggy Day ⓘ Sylvia Fowler ⓘ |
| hasMaritalProblemWith | Stephen Haines ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Little Mary
ⓘ
linked to:
little Mary
|
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | housewife ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
dignified
ⓘ
gracious ⓘ kind ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Norma Shearer ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| rivalInLove | Crystal Allen ⓘ |
| setIn | Manhattan ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| spouse | Stephen Haines ⓘ |
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 Haines Description of subject: Mary Haines is the gracious, upper-class New York wife and mother whose marital troubles and friendships drive the plot of the 1939 film "The Women."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Women (play)