Mary Tyler Moore
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Mary Tyler Moore was an influential American actress and television icon best known for redefining the portrayal of independent working women through her roles on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Tyler Moore canonical | 31 |
| Mary Tyler Moore as Mary McKinnon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T560525 — 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 Tyler Moore Context triple: [Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, notableRecipient, Mary Tyler Moore]
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A.
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett is an iconic American comedian, actress, and singer best known for her groundbreaking sketch comedy series "The Carol Burnett Show."
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B.
Bonnie Swanson
Bonnie Swanson is a recurring character on the animated sitcom Family Guy, known as Joe Swanson’s soft-spoken, long-pregnant wife and neighbor of the Griffin family.
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C.
Ginny Newhart
Ginny Newhart was an American homemaker and the longtime wife of comedian and actor Bob Newhart, known for her behind-the-scenes influence on his career and for inspiring key ideas in his television work.
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D.
Shirley Jones
Shirley Jones is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in classic musical films and as the matriarch in the television series "The Partridge Family."
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E.
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball was an iconic American comedian, actress, and producer best known for starring in and co-creating the groundbreaking television sitcom "I Love Lucy."
- 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 Tyler Moore Target entity description: Mary Tyler Moore was an influential American actress and television icon best known for redefining the portrayal of independent working women through her roles on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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A.
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett is an iconic American comedian, actress, and singer best known for her groundbreaking sketch comedy series "The Carol Burnett Show."
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B.
Bonnie Swanson
Bonnie Swanson is a recurring character on the animated sitcom Family Guy, known as Joe Swanson’s soft-spoken, long-pregnant wife and neighbor of the Griffin family.
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C.
Ginny Newhart
Ginny Newhart was an American homemaker and the longtime wife of comedian and actor Bob Newhart, known for her behind-the-scenes influence on his career and for inspiring key ideas in his television work.
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D.
Shirley Jones
Shirley Jones is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in classic musical films and as the matriarch in the television series "The Partridge Family."
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E.
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball was an iconic American comedian, actress, and producer best known for starring in and co-creating the groundbreaking television sitcom "I Love Lucy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
author ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award nomination for Best Actress
ⓘ
Golden Globe Award ⓘ Primetime Emmy Awards ⓘ
surface form:
Primetime Emmy Award
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award ⓘ Tony Award ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary Tyler Moore self-link ⓘ |
| causeAdvocated | diabetes research ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
cardiopulmonary arrest
ⓘ
pneumonia ⓘ |
| child | Richard Meeker Jr. ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | MTM Enterprises ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-12-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-01-25 ⓘ |
| employer |
CBS
ⓘ
MTM Enterprises ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
English American
ⓘ
Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Moore ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dramatic acting
ⓘ
television comedy ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | situation comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| knownFor |
portrayal of independent working women on television
ⓘ
role of Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show ⓘ role of Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| laterReligion | Judaism ⓘ |
| medicalCondition | type 1 diabetes ⓘ |
| memberOf | MTM Enterprises ⓘ |
| movement | feminism ⓘ |
| name | Mary Tyler Moore self-link ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Laura Petrie
ⓘ
Mary Richards ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mary (1978 TV series)
ⓘ
Mary (1978 TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
Mary (1985 TV series)
Ordinary People ⓘ The Dick Van Dyke Show ⓘ The Mary Tyler Moore Hour ⓘ The Mary Tyler Moore Show ⓘ Thoroughly Modern Millie ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
author ⓘ dancer ⓘ film producer ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Greenwich, Connecticut
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surface form:
Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
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| positionHeld | International Chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Greenwich, Connecticut
ⓘ
surface form:
Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
New York City ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| spouse |
Dick Meeker
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Grant Tinker ⓘ Robert Levine ⓘ |
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 Tyler Moore Description of subject: Mary Tyler Moore was an influential American actress and television icon best known for redefining the portrayal of independent working women through her roles on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
→
notableRecipient
→
Mary Tyler Moore
ⓘ
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy
→
notableWinner
→
Mary Tyler Moore
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Mary Tyler Moore as Mary McKinnon
subject surface form:
Mary Richards
subject surface form:
The Dick Van Dyke Show