Sarah Leary
E527087
Sarah Leary is a central character in Anne Tyler’s novel "The Accidental Tourist," known for her strained marriage to the emotionally withdrawn travel writer Macon Leary and her role in the story’s exploration of grief and domestic disconnection.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Leary canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5201249 — 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: Sarah Leary Context triple: [The Accidental Tourist, character, Sarah Leary]
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A.
Shyla Leary
Shyla Leary is known as the spouse of acclaimed American novelist John Irving.
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B.
Leah Salisbury
Leah Salisbury was the wife of American playwright and screenwriter Sidney Howard.
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C.
Joanna Leary
Joanna Leary was the wife of psychologist and counterculture icon Timothy Leary, associated with his psychedelic and activist milieu.
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D.
Rebecca McGuinness
Rebecca McGuinness is known as the wife of renowned English motorcycle road racer John McGuinness.
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E.
Meghan McDermott
Meghan McDermott is an American public relations and communications professional best known for her marriage to actor Theo Rossi.
- 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: Sarah Leary Target entity description: Sarah Leary is a central character in Anne Tyler’s novel "The Accidental Tourist," known for her strained marriage to the emotionally withdrawn travel writer Macon Leary and her role in the story’s exploration of grief and domestic disconnection.
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A.
Shyla Leary
Shyla Leary is known as the spouse of acclaimed American novelist John Irving.
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B.
Leah Salisbury
Leah Salisbury was the wife of American playwright and screenwriter Sidney Howard.
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C.
Joanna Leary
Joanna Leary was the wife of psychologist and counterculture icon Timothy Leary, associated with his psychedelic and activist milieu.
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D.
Rebecca McGuinness
Rebecca McGuinness is known as the wife of renowned English motorcycle road racer John McGuinness.
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E.
Meghan McDermott
Meghan McDermott is an American public relations and communications professional best known for her marriage to actor Theo Rossi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Accidental Tourist
ⓘ
linked to:
novel The Accidental Tourist
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| appearsInWorkBy | Anne Tyler ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
emotional distance
ⓘ
family grief ⓘ marital breakdown ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Anne Tyler ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | novel ⓘ |
| hasFirstName | Sarah ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Leary ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipCharacteristic | strained marriage with Macon Leary ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
explores themes of domestic disconnection
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explores themes of grief ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
The Accidental Tourist fictional universe
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linked to:
novel The Accidental Tourist
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| spouseOf | Macon Leary ⓘ |
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: Sarah Leary Description of subject: Sarah Leary is a central character in Anne Tyler’s novel "The Accidental Tourist," known for her strained marriage to the emotionally withdrawn travel writer Macon Leary and her role in the story’s exploration of grief and domestic disconnection.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.