Miss Mary Shepherd
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Miss Mary Shepherd is the eccentric, homeless elderly woman who lives in a van in Alan Bennett’s autobiographical story "The Lady in the Van."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Miss Mary Shepherd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8486068 — 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: Miss Mary Shepherd Context triple: [The Lady in the Van, portrays, Miss Mary Shepherd]
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A.
Mabel McVey
Mabel McVey is a British-Swedish pop and R&B singer and songwriter known for hits like "Don't Call Me Up" and "Mad Love."
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B.
Martha Huggins
Martha Huggins is an actress best known for her role in the classic film "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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C.
Mary Ann Pearce
Mary Ann Pearce is known as the wife of American crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Margaret Adams
Margaret Adams was the wife of British historian A. J. P. Taylor and a figure connected to mid-20th-century British intellectual and academic circles.
- 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: Miss Mary Shepherd Target entity description: Miss Mary Shepherd is the eccentric, homeless elderly woman who lives in a van in Alan Bennett’s autobiographical story "The Lady in the Van."
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A.
Mabel McVey
Mabel McVey is a British-Swedish pop and R&B singer and songwriter known for hits like "Don't Call Me Up" and "Mad Love."
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B.
Martha Huggins
Martha Huggins is an actress best known for her role in the classic film "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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C.
Mary Ann Pearce
Mary Ann Pearce is known as the wife of American crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Margaret Adams
Margaret Adams was the wife of British historian A. J. P. Taylor and a figure connected to mid-20th-century British intellectual and academic circles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| age | elderly ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Lady in the Van ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | literature ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkType | autobiographical story ⓘ |
| basedOn | real person ⓘ |
| cityOfSetting |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| countryOfSetting | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Alan Bennett ⓘ |
| economicStatus | poor ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Lady in the Van universe ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| housingSituation | lives in a van parked on Alan Bennett’s property ⓘ |
| livesInVehicle | true ⓘ |
| name | Mary Shepherd ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives much of the plot in The Lady in the Van ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
reclusive
ⓘ
strong-willed ⓘ stubborn ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | eccentric ⓘ |
| relationshipToAlanBennett |
lodger in his driveway
ⓘ
neighbor ⓘ |
| residence | van ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central character
ⓘ
title character ⓘ |
| socialStatus | homeless ⓘ |
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: Miss Mary Shepherd Description of subject: Miss Mary Shepherd is the eccentric, homeless elderly woman who lives in a van in Alan Bennett’s autobiographical story "The Lady in the Van."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.