Mary
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Mary is the given first name of the renowned American soprano Leontyne Price, one of the most celebrated opera singers of the 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7728326 — 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: [Leontyne Price, givenName, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is a fictional character in B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community’s young members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
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Mary
Mary is the birth name of American actress, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds, a major Hollywood star of the mid-20th century.
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Mary
Mary is the middle name of Katherine Mary Dewar, a component of her full personal name.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary J. Blige, the acclaimed American singer, songwriter, and actress often called the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul."
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Mary
Mary is a minor character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom's kind and well-behaved cousin.
- 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 the given first name of the renowned American soprano Leontyne Price, one of the most celebrated opera singers of the 20th century.
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Mary
Mary is the given first name of the acclaimed American actress Meryl Streep.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary J. Blige, the acclaimed American singer, songwriter, and actress often called the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul."
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Mary
Mary is the birth name of the acclaimed British actress Vivien Leigh, renowned for her roles in "Gone with the Wind" and "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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Mary
Mary is the birth name of Dusty Springfield, the acclaimed British pop singer known for hits like "Son of a Preacher Man."
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Mary
Mary is the given name of the influential American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou Williams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American soprano
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human ⓘ opera singer ⓘ soprano ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award
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Kennedy Center Honors ⓘ National Medal of Arts ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ Spingarn Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-02-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio
NERFINISHED
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Juilliard School ⓘ |
| employer |
Metropolitan Opera
NERFINISHED
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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco Opera NERFINISHED ⓘ Vienna State Opera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
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| familyName | Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | vocal performance ⓘ |
| genre |
classical music
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opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance |
English
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French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ |
| middleName | Violet ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first African American soprano to achieve international stardom at the Metropolitan Opera ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the most celebrated opera singers of the 20th century ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Aida in Verdi's Aida
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Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly NERFINISHED ⓘ Leonora in Il trovatore NERFINISHED ⓘ Leonora in La forza del destino NERFINISHED ⓘ Tosca in Puccini's Tosca ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aida
NERFINISHED
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Don Giovanni NERFINISHED ⓘ Il trovatore NERFINISHED ⓘ La forza del destino NERFINISHED ⓘ Madama Butterfly NERFINISHED ⓘ Tosca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
concert singer
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opera singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Laurel, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Leontyne Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceType | lyric soprano ⓘ |
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 the given first name of the renowned American soprano Leontyne Price, one of the most celebrated opera singers of the 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.