Mary Sheldon
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Mary Sheldon is an American author and the daughter of famed novelist and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Sheldon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9676776 — 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 Sheldon Context triple: [Sidney Sheldon, child, Mary Sheldon]
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A.
Emily Greenleaf
Emily Greenleaf is a wealthy American socialite and the overprotective mother of Dickie Greenleaf in Patricia Highsmith’s novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley."
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B.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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C.
Mary DeWitt
Mary DeWitt was the mother of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
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D.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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E.
Elizabeth McCord
Elizabeth McCord is the principled and pragmatic U.S. Secretary of State at the center of the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known for her diplomatic skill and moral conviction.
- 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 Sheldon Target entity description: Mary Sheldon is an American author and the daughter of famed novelist and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon.
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A.
Emily Greenleaf
Emily Greenleaf is a wealthy American socialite and the overprotective mother of Dickie Greenleaf in Patricia Highsmith’s novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley."
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B.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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C.
Mary DeWitt
Mary DeWitt was the mother of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
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D.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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E.
Elizabeth McCord
Elizabeth McCord is the principled and pragmatic U.S. Secretary of State at the center of the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known for her diplomatic skill and moral conviction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| child | Mary Sheldon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sheldon ⓘ |
| father | Sidney Sheldon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | literature ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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fiction ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
American Jews
ⓘ
linked to:
Jewish Americans
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Sidney Sheldon ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Perhaps I’ll Dream of Darkness
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Reflection ⓘ The Boy Who Would Be Famous ⓘ The Little Green Drum ⓘ The Moonstone Legacy ⓘ The Shadow Girl ⓘ The Wishing Star ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| 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 Sheldon Description of subject: Mary Sheldon is an American author and the daughter of famed novelist and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mary Sheldon