Mary Louise Davis
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Mary Louise Davis is the mother of American stand-up comedian, writer, and filmmaker Louis C.K.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Louise Davis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3630209 — 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 Louise Davis Context triple: [Louis C.K., parent, Mary Louise Davis]
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A.
Margaret Howell Davis
Margaret Howell Davis was the daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell Davis, known primarily for her connection to this prominent American Civil War–era family.
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B.
Mary Louise Smith
Mary Louise Smith was a young African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, helped lead to the landmark desegregation case Browder v. Gayle.
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C.
Mary Bingham
Mary Bingham is a notable member of the prominent Bingham family, recognized for her association with this influential lineage.
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D.
Rose Mary Harbison
Rose Mary Harbison is an American violinist and educator known for her performances, teaching, and long association with composer John Harbison.
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E.
Marjorie Nelson
Marjorie Nelson was an American actress known for her work on stage and screen and for being married to fellow actor Howard Da Silva.
- 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 Louise Davis Target entity description: Mary Louise Davis is the mother of American stand-up comedian, writer, and filmmaker Louis C.K.
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A.
Margaret Howell Davis
Margaret Howell Davis was the daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell Davis, known primarily for her connection to this prominent American Civil War–era family.
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B.
Mary Louise Smith
Mary Louise Smith was a young African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, helped lead to the landmark desegregation case Browder v. Gayle.
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C.
Mary Bingham
Mary Bingham is a notable member of the prominent Bingham family, recognized for her association with this influential lineage.
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D.
Rose Mary Harbison
Rose Mary Harbison is an American violinist and educator known for her performances, teaching, and long association with composer John Harbison.
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E.
Marjorie Nelson
Marjorie Nelson was an American actress known for her work on stage and screen and for being married to fellow actor Howard Da Silva.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Harvard University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | computer science ⓘ |
| hasChild | Louis C.K. ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Louise Davis ⓘ |
| motherOf | Louis C.K. ⓘ |
| occupation | software engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Luis Szekely ⓘ |
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 Louise Davis Description of subject: Mary Louise Davis is the mother of American stand-up comedian, writer, and filmmaker Louis C.K.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mary Louise Davis