Mary Lisbon
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Mary Lisbon is one of the enigmatic Lisbon sisters in Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel and its film adaptation "The Virgin Suicides," whose tragic life and death are central to the story’s exploration of adolescence and suburban malaise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Lisbon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9839534 — 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 Lisbon Context triple: [The Virgin Suicides, mainCharacter, Mary Lisbon]
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A.
Charlotte Andergast
Charlotte Andergast is the emotionally distant concert pianist mother at the center of Ingmar Bergman’s film "Autumn Sonata," whose strained relationship with her daughter drives the story’s intense psychological drama.
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B.
Magdalene Shaw
Magdalene Shaw is a sharp-witted, tough matriarch and career criminal in the Fast & Furious franchise, known as the mother of Deckard and Owen Shaw.
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C.
Elizabeth Armistead
Elizabeth Armistead was an 18th-century English courtesan and later the respected wife and companion of prominent Whig statesman Charles James Fox.
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D.
Elizabeth Logue
Elizabeth Logue is an American actress best known for her work in film and television during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Charlotte Garrigue
Charlotte Garrigue was an American-born woman who became the wife of Czechoslovakia’s first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and an influential figure in his intellectual and political life.
- 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 Lisbon Target entity description: Mary Lisbon is one of the enigmatic Lisbon sisters in Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel and its film adaptation "The Virgin Suicides," whose tragic life and death are central to the story’s exploration of adolescence and suburban malaise.
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A.
Charlotte Andergast
Charlotte Andergast is the emotionally distant concert pianist mother at the center of Ingmar Bergman’s film "Autumn Sonata," whose strained relationship with her daughter drives the story’s intense psychological drama.
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B.
Magdalene Shaw
Magdalene Shaw is a sharp-witted, tough matriarch and career criminal in the Fast & Furious franchise, known as the mother of Deckard and Owen Shaw.
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C.
Elizabeth Armistead
Elizabeth Armistead was an 18th-century English courtesan and later the respected wife and companion of prominent Whig statesman Charles James Fox.
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D.
Elizabeth Logue
Elizabeth Logue is an American actress best known for her work in film and television during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Charlotte Garrigue
Charlotte Garrigue was an American-born woman who became the wife of Czechoslovakia’s first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and an influential figure in his intellectual and political life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Virgin Suicides (1999 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Virgin Suicides (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Jeffrey Eugenides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathManner | suicide ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Virgin Suicides universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParent |
Mr. Lisbon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mrs. Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lisbon sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
subject of neighborhood boys’ obsession ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilmBy | A. J. Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | suburban Detroit, Michigan (1970s) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Bonnie Lisbon
NERFINISHED
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Cecilia Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ Lux Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ Therese Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyFunction | embodiment of the Lisbon sisters’ tragedy ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
adolescence
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mystery and enigma ⓘ suburban malaise ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
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 Lisbon Description of subject: Mary Lisbon is one of the enigmatic Lisbon sisters in Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel and its film adaptation "The Virgin Suicides," whose tragic life and death are central to the story’s exploration of adolescence and suburban malaise.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.