Mary FitzMaurice
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Mary FitzMaurice was an 18th-century Irish noblewoman of the FitzMaurice family, notable as the mother of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and future British Prime Minister.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary FitzMaurice canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9257129 — 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 FitzMaurice Context triple: [Lord Shelburne, mother, Mary FitzMaurice]
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A.
Mary FitzJames
Mary FitzJames was a daughter of King James II of England and his mistress Arabella Churchill, belonging to the illegitimate but acknowledged FitzJames line of the late 17th century.
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B.
Euphemia de Ross
Euphemia de Ross was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman and queen consort as the second wife of King Robert II of Scotland.
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C.
Eleanor de Clare
Eleanor de Clare was a prominent 14th-century English noblewoman and heiress, granddaughter of King Edward I, whose marriages and estates made her a significant figure in the politics of Edward II’s reign.
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D.
Mabel FitzRobert
Mabel FitzRobert was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman noblewoman of the powerful de Clare–FitzRobert family, connected to the earldom of Gloucester.
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E.
Mary Orr
Mary Orr was an American writer and playwright best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which inspired the classic film All About Eve.
- 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 FitzMaurice Target entity description: Mary FitzMaurice was an 18th-century Irish noblewoman of the FitzMaurice family, notable as the mother of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and future British Prime Minister.
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A.
Mary FitzJames
Mary FitzJames was a daughter of King James II of England and his mistress Arabella Churchill, belonging to the illegitimate but acknowledged FitzJames line of the late 17th century.
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B.
Euphemia de Ross
Euphemia de Ross was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman and queen consort as the second wife of King Robert II of Scotland.
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C.
Eleanor de Clare
Eleanor de Clare was a prominent 14th-century English noblewoman and heiress, granddaughter of King Edward I, whose marriages and estates made her a significant figure in the politics of Edward II’s reign.
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D.
Mabel FitzRobert
Mabel FitzRobert was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman noblewoman of the powerful de Clare–FitzRobert family, connected to the earldom of Gloucester.
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E.
Mary Orr
Mary Orr was an American writer and playwright best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which inspired the classic film All About Eve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century Irish person
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Irish noblewoman ⓘ Prime Minister of Great Britain ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child | William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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Kingdom of Ireland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| familyName |
FitzMaurice
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linked to:
Fitzmaurice
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| memberOf |
FitzMaurice family
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linked to:
Petty-Fitzmaurice family
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| mother | Mary FitzMaurice ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Irish noblewoman
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Prime Minister of Great Britain ⓘ |
| residence | Ireland ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
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 FitzMaurice Description of subject: Mary FitzMaurice was an 18th-century Irish noblewoman of the FitzMaurice family, notable as the mother of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and future British Prime Minister.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.