Mary Boyd
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Mary Boyd was an Australian artist and member of the prominent Boyd artistic family, known for her marriage to painter Sidney Nolan and her own contributions to the arts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Boyd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8215358 — 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 Boyd Context triple: [Sidney Nolan, spouse, Mary Boyd]
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A.
Marion Boyd
Marion Boyd was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known primarily as a royal mistress of King James IV of Scotland and the mother of several of his illegitimate children.
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B.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
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C.
Henrietta Boggs
Henrietta Boggs was an American-Costa Rican writer, journalist, and political activist best known as the former First Lady of Costa Rica and a key figure in the country’s 1948 revolution and subsequent democratic reforms.
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D.
Mary Matthews
Mary Matthews is the idealistic socialite protagonist of the 1945 political drama film "State of the Union," who becomes entangled in her husband's bid for the U.S. presidency.
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E.
Louvenia Breedlove
Louvenia Breedlove was the sister of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
- 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 Boyd Target entity description: Mary Boyd was an Australian artist and member of the prominent Boyd artistic family, known for her marriage to painter Sidney Nolan and her own contributions to the arts.
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A.
Marion Boyd
Marion Boyd was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known primarily as a royal mistress of King James IV of Scotland and the mother of several of his illegitimate children.
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B.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
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C.
Henrietta Boggs
Henrietta Boggs was an American-Costa Rican writer, journalist, and political activist best known as the former First Lady of Costa Rica and a key figure in the country’s 1948 revolution and subsequent democratic reforms.
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D.
Mary Matthews
Mary Matthews is the idealistic socialite protagonist of the 1945 political drama film "State of the Union," who becomes entangled in her husband's bid for the U.S. presidency.
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E.
Louvenia Breedlove
Louvenia Breedlove was the sister of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian artist
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artist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | visual arts ⓘ |
| genre | painting ⓘ |
| hasRelativeInProfession | multiple artists in the Boyd family ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Boyd family ⓘ |
| movement | Australian modern art ⓘ |
| name | Mary Boyd ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Boyd artistic family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to the arts in Australia
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marriage to Sidney Nolan ⓘ |
| occupation | artist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Australia ⓘ |
| relative |
Doris Boyd
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Merric Boyd ⓘ |
| sibling |
Arthur Boyd
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David Boyd ⓘ Guy Boyd ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Perceval
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Sidney Nolan ⓘ |
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 Boyd Description of subject: Mary Boyd was an Australian artist and member of the prominent Boyd artistic family, known for her marriage to painter Sidney Nolan and her own contributions to the arts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.