Mabry
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Mabry is a surname most notably associated with Betty Davis (born Betty Mabry), the influential American funk and soul singer-songwriter and former wife of Miles Davis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mabry canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8188638 — 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: Mabry Context triple: [Betty Mabry, familyName, Mabry]
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A.
Palmore
Palmore is a surname that functions as a variant form of the more common family name Palmer.
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B.
McCollum
McCollum is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as technology, sports, and politics.
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C.
Harlan
Harlan is a masculine given name of English origin, historically associated with figures such as U.S. Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone.
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D.
Gonzales
Gonzales is a Spanish-origin surname common in the United States and Latin America, borne by numerous notable figures in politics, sports, and the arts.
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E.
Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy is an affluent residential neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, known for its large heritage homes and tree-lined streets.
- 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: Mabry Target entity description: Mabry is a surname most notably associated with Betty Davis (born Betty Mabry), the influential American funk and soul singer-songwriter and former wife of Miles Davis.
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A.
Palmore
Palmore is a surname that functions as a variant form of the more common family name Palmer.
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B.
McCollum
McCollum is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as technology, sports, and politics.
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C.
Harlan
Harlan is a masculine given name of English origin, historically associated with figures such as U.S. Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone.
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D.
Gonzales
Gonzales is a Spanish-origin surname common in the United States and Latin America, borne by numerous notable figures in politics, sports, and the arts.
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E.
Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy is an affluent residential neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, known for its large heritage homes and tree-lined streets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
funk musician
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human ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ soul musician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| birthName | Betty Mabry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Mabry ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| spouse | Miles Davis ⓘ |
| usedBy | Betty Davis ⓘ |
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: Mabry Description of subject: Mabry is a surname most notably associated with Betty Davis (born Betty Mabry), the influential American funk and soul singer-songwriter and former wife of Miles Davis.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.