Mary MacGregor
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Mary MacGregor is a fictional young Highland woman in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Rob Roy," notable for her tragic fate amid the clan conflicts of early 18th-century Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary MacGregor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8449229 — 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 MacGregor Context triple: [Rob Roy, mainCharacter, Mary MacGregor]
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A.
Mary MacLaren
Mary MacLaren was an American silent film actress known for her expressive performances in early 20th-century cinema.
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B.
Mary Mackilwean
Mary Mackilwean was the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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C.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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D.
Anna Mackenzie
Anna Mackenzie was a 17th-century Scottish noblewoman noted for her influential marriages into powerful aristocratic families and her role in the political and social life of her time.
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E.
Elizabeth Macdowall
Elizabeth Macdowall was the wife of Scottish judge and memoirist Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, and a member of Edinburgh’s early 19th-century legal and social 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: Mary MacGregor Target entity description: Mary MacGregor is a fictional young Highland woman in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Rob Roy," notable for her tragic fate amid the clan conflicts of early 18th-century Scotland.
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A.
Mary MacLaren
Mary MacLaren was an American silent film actress known for her expressive performances in early 20th-century cinema.
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B.
Mary Mackilwean
Mary Mackilwean was the wife of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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C.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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D.
Anna Mackenzie
Anna Mackenzie was a 17th-century Scottish noblewoman noted for her influential marriages into powerful aristocratic families and her role in the political and social life of her time.
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E.
Elizabeth Macdowall
Elizabeth Macdowall was the wife of Scottish judge and memoirist Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, and a member of Edinburgh’s early 19th-century legal and social circles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Rob Roy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Clan MacGregor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rob Roy MacGregor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeathInNarrative | clan violence ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Sir Walter Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Walter Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathInNarrative | yes ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Scottish Highlander ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Rob Roy (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | historical novel character ⓘ |
| hasNotability | tragic fate in Scottish clan conflicts ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Romantic era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | victim of clan conflict ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | tragic figure ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| occupation | Highland woman ⓘ |
| partOfWork | Rob Roy (Walter Scott novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWorkAuthor | Sir Walter Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Scottish Highlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | early 18th century ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
clan feuds
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innocence and suffering ⓘ violence and retribution ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1817 ⓘ |
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 MacGregor Description of subject: Mary MacGregor is a fictional young Highland woman in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Rob Roy," notable for her tragic fate amid the clan conflicts of early 18th-century Scotland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.