Mary Bland
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Mary Bland was a member of the prominent Virginia Bland family and the mother of Revolutionary-era planter and politician Henry Lee II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Bland canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5904139 — 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 Bland Context triple: [Henry Lee II, mother, Mary Bland]
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A.
Maria Bicknell
Maria Bicknell was the wife of English Romantic landscape painter John Constable and a member of a well-connected Suffolk family in early 19th-century England.
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B.
Martha Huggins
Martha Huggins is an actress best known for her role in the classic film "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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C.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was a social reformer and nurse best known as a co-founder of New York City's pioneering Henry Street Settlement, which provided social services and healthcare to impoverished communities.
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D.
Mary Anne Grindall
Mary Anne Grindall was the wife of British civil servant, political reformer, and ornithologist Allan Octavian Hume.
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E.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
- 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 Bland Target entity description: Mary Bland was a member of the prominent Virginia Bland family and the mother of Revolutionary-era planter and politician Henry Lee II.
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A.
Maria Bicknell
Maria Bicknell was the wife of English Romantic landscape painter John Constable and a member of a well-connected Suffolk family in early 19th-century England.
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B.
Martha Huggins
Martha Huggins is an actress best known for her role in the classic film "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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C.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was a social reformer and nurse best known as a co-founder of New York City's pioneering Henry Street Settlement, which provided social services and healthcare to impoverished communities.
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D.
Mary Anne Grindall
Mary Anne Grindall was the wife of British civil servant, political reformer, and ornithologist Allan Octavian Hume.
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E.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Colony of Virginia
ⓘ
linked to:
Colony and Dominion of Virginia
Colony of Virginia ⓘ
linked to:
Colony and Dominion of Virginia
Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| memberOf | Bland family ⓘ |
| motherOf | Henry Lee II ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Lee family of Virginia ⓘ |
| occupation |
planter
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Virginia ⓘ |
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 Bland Description of subject: Mary Bland was a member of the prominent Virginia Bland family and the mother of Revolutionary-era planter and politician Henry Lee II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.