Mary Tolstoy
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Mary Tolstoy was the wife of British novelist Patrick O'Brian, known primarily for her marriage to the acclaimed author of the Aubrey–Maturin series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Tolstoy canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6190442 — 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 Tolstoy Context triple: [Patrick O'Brian, spouse, Mary Tolstoy]
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A.
Sophia Tolstaya
Sophia Tolstaya was a Russian diarist, editor, and wife of novelist Leo Tolstoy, known for managing his household, copying his manuscripts, and documenting their complex marriage.
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B.
Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya
Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya was a Russian writer, memoirist, and humanitarian, best known as the youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy and for preserving and promoting her father's literary and philosophical legacy.
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C.
Tatiana Lvovna Tolstaya
Tatiana Lvovna Tolstaya was a daughter of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sophia, belonging to the prominent Tolstoy literary family.
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D.
Maria Lvovna Tolstaya
Maria Lvovna Tolstaya was one of the daughters of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sophia, belonging to the prominent Tolstoy family.
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E.
Tatyana Tolstaya
Tatyana Tolstaya is a contemporary Russian writer, essayist, and television host known for her imaginative, stylistically rich fiction and sharp cultural commentary.
- 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 Tolstoy Target entity description: Mary Tolstoy was the wife of British novelist Patrick O'Brian, known primarily for her marriage to the acclaimed author of the Aubrey–Maturin series.
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A.
Sophia Tolstaya
Sophia Tolstaya was a Russian diarist, editor, and wife of novelist Leo Tolstoy, known for managing his household, copying his manuscripts, and documenting their complex marriage.
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B.
Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya
Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya was a Russian writer, memoirist, and humanitarian, best known as the youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy and for preserving and promoting her father's literary and philosophical legacy.
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C.
Tatiana Lvovna Tolstaya
Tatiana Lvovna Tolstaya was a daughter of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sophia, belonging to the prominent Tolstoy literary family.
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D.
Maria Lvovna Tolstaya
Maria Lvovna Tolstaya was one of the daughters of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sophia, belonging to the prominent Tolstoy family.
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E.
Tatyana Tolstaya
Tatyana Tolstaya is a contemporary Russian writer, essayist, and television host known for her imaginative, stylistically rich fiction and sharp cultural commentary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British novelist
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| name | Mary Tolstoy ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Patrick O'Brian ⓘ |
| notableWork | Aubrey–Maturin series ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Tolstoy
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Patrick O'Brian ⓘ |
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 Tolstoy Description of subject: Mary Tolstoy was the wife of British novelist Patrick O'Brian, known primarily for her marriage to the acclaimed author of the Aubrey–Maturin series.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.