Mary
E65424
Mary is a minor character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom's kind and well-behaved cousin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505380 — 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 Context triple: [Tom Sawyer, cousin, Mary]
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A.
Mary
Mary is a central figure in Christianity, venerated as the mother of Jesus and often honored as the Virgin Mary.
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B.
Mary
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, was a daughter of King George V and Queen Mary of the United Kingdom and a prominent British royal figure in the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the given first name of Margaret Truman, the daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and a noted author and singer.
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D.
Mary
Mary is the given first name of the acclaimed American actress Meryl Streep.
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E.
Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th-century English writer and advocate of women's rights.
- 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 Target entity description: Mary is a minor character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom's kind and well-behaved cousin.
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A.
Mary
Mary is a central figure in Christianity, venerated as the mother of Jesus and often honored as the Virgin Mary.
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B.
Mary
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, was a daughter of King George V and Queen Mary of the United Kingdom and a prominent British royal figure in the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th-century English writer and advocate of women's rights.
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D.
Mary
Mary is the given first name of Margaret Truman, the daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and a noted author and singer.
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E.
Mary
Mary is the given first name of the acclaimed American actress Meryl Streep.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ⓘ |
| appearsInFictionalUniverse | St. Petersburg, Missouri (fictional town) ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | literature ⓘ |
| authorPseudonym | Mark Twain ⓘ |
| authorRealName |
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
ⓘ
linked to:
Mark Twain
|
| characterTrait |
kind
ⓘ
well-behaved ⓘ |
| cousinOf | Tom Sawyer ⓘ |
| creator | Mark Twain ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRelationInWork |
Aunt Polly
ⓘ
Sid ⓘ |
| name | Mary ⓘ |
| relativeOf | Tom Sawyer ⓘ |
| roleInWork | minor character ⓘ |
| workCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| workGenre | novel ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1876 ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Mary is a minor character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom's kind and well-behaved cousin.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.