Mary
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Mary is the given name of Mary Catherine Bateson, an American cultural anthropologist and writer known for her work on learning and the human life cycle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8864332 — 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: [Mary Catherine Bateson, givenName, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th-century English writer and advocate of women's rights.
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Mary
Mary is the middle name of Theresa May, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Mary
Mary I of England was the 16th-century Queen of England and Ireland best known for her attempt to restore Roman Catholicism and for the Marian persecutions that earned her the nickname "Bloody Mary."
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Mary
Mary is a studio album by Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie, known for its highlife influences and tribute to his late grandmother.
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Mary
Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger and one of the early settlers of Plymouth Colony in 17th-century New England.
- 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 name of Mary Catherine Bateson, an American cultural anthropologist and writer known for her work on learning and the human life cycle.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Everest Boole, a 19th-century mathematics educator known for her innovative ideas on teaching mathematics, especially to children.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Tyler Peabody, an American educator and reformer known for her work in the 19th century.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Cassatt, the renowned American Impressionist painter known for her depictions of women and children.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary McLeod Bethune, a prominent African American educator, civil rights leader, and founder of Bethune-Cookman University.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Church Terrell, a prominent African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural anthropologist
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-12-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-01-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
Radcliffe College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Amherst College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Mason University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Bateson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Gregory Bateson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cultural anthropology
ⓘ
human life cycle ⓘ learning ⓘ |
| givenName |
Mary
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mary Catherine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Margaret Mead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | work on learning and the human life cycle ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Composing a Life
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
With a Daughter’s Eye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cultural anthropologist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of anthropology ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 name of Mary Catherine Bateson, an American cultural anthropologist and writer known for her work on learning and the human life cycle.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.