Mary MacArthur
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Mary MacArthur was the daughter of American playwright and screenwriter Charles MacArthur and actress Helen Hayes, whose early death from polio deeply affected her famous parents' lives and work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary MacArthur canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7071855 — 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 MacArthur Context triple: [Charles MacArthur, child, Mary MacArthur]
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A.
Sarah McArthur
Sarah McArthur is a film producer best known for serving as an executive producer on Pixar’s animated feature "Toy Story 2."
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B.
Jean MacArthur
Jean MacArthur was the American wife of General Douglas MacArthur, known for her public poise, support of her husband's military career, and long life as a prominent military spouse and widow.
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C.
Mary MacLaren
Mary MacLaren was an American silent film actress known for her expressive performances in early 20th-century cinema.
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D.
Frances Macdonald
Frances Macdonald was a prominent Scottish artist and designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her role in the Glasgow School and her distinctive contribution to the development of Art Nouveau.
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E.
Mary Mackilwean
Mary Mackilwean was the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
- 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 MacArthur Target entity description: Mary MacArthur was the daughter of American playwright and screenwriter Charles MacArthur and actress Helen Hayes, whose early death from polio deeply affected her famous parents' lives and work.
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A.
Sarah McArthur
Sarah McArthur is a film producer best known for serving as an executive producer on Pixar’s animated feature "Toy Story 2."
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B.
Jean MacArthur
Jean MacArthur was the American wife of General Douglas MacArthur, known for her public poise, support of her husband's military career, and long life as a prominent military spouse and widow.
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C.
Mary MacLaren
Mary MacLaren was an American silent film actress known for her expressive performances in early 20th-century cinema.
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D.
Frances Macdonald
Frances Macdonald was a prominent Scottish artist and designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her role in the Glasgow School and her distinctive contribution to the development of Art Nouveau.
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E.
Mary Mackilwean
Mary Mackilwean was the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American film industry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
American theatre ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | poliomyelitis ⓘ |
| child |
Mary MacArthur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mary MacArthur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedIn |
biographical accounts of Charles MacArthur
ⓘ
biographical accounts of Helen Hayes ⓘ |
| familyName | MacArthur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Charles MacArthur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Charles MacArthur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Helen Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
the later work of Charles MacArthur
ⓘ
the later work of Helen Hayes ⓘ the personal life of Charles MacArthur ⓘ the personal life of Helen Hayes ⓘ |
| mother | Helen Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | early death from polio ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the daughter of Charles MacArthur and Helen Hayes ⓘ |
| parent |
Charles MacArthur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Helen Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
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 MacArthur Description of subject: Mary MacArthur was the daughter of American playwright and screenwriter Charles MacArthur and actress Helen Hayes, whose early death from polio deeply affected her famous parents' lives and work.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.