Mary
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Mary is a supporting character in Richard Wagner’s opera "Der fliegende Holländer," typically portrayed as Senta’s nurse or confidante within the story’s coastal Norwegian setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10126480 — 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: [Der fliegende Holländer, character, Mary]
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A.
Mary
Mary is a central figure in Christianity, venerated as the mother of Jesus and often honored as the Virgin Mary.
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B.
Mary
Mary is the given first name of Margaret Truman, the daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and a noted author and singer.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the given name of the American suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, known for her bestselling mystery and thriller books.
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D.
Mary
Mary is the middle name of Katherine Mary Dewar, a component of her full personal name.
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E.
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 a supporting character in Richard Wagner’s opera "Der fliegende Holländer," typically portrayed as Senta’s nurse or confidante within the story’s coastal Norwegian setting.
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Mary
Mary is a central character in Ralph Vaughan Williams's opera "Hugh the Drover," serving as the romantic interest whose choices drive much of the plot.
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B.
Mary
Mary is a central character in Robert Frost's narrative poem "The Death of the Hired Man," serving as a compassionate and mediating presence between her husband Warren and the returning farmhand Silas.
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C.
Mary
Mary is a central character in W. H. Auden’s long poem "For the Time Being," which reimagines the Nativity story in a modern, philosophical context.
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D.
Mary
Mary is a minor character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom's kind and well-behaved cousin.
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E.
Mary
Mary is a central female character in Bruce Springsteen's song "Thunder Road," symbolizing hope, escape, and the possibility of a new life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
opera character ⓘ supporting character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Der fliegende Holländer ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Richard Wagner ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Senta ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | Romantic opera ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkSetting | Norway ⓘ |
| createdBy | Richard Wagner ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceWork | 1843 premiere of Der fliegende Holländer ⓘ |
| medium | opera ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
confidante to the heroine
ⓘ
supporting figure in Senta’s storyline ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfWork | German ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Der fliegende Holländer ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
Senta’s confidante
ⓘ
Senta’s nurse ⓘ |
| settingOfActions | coastal Norway ⓘ |
| workTitleInEnglish |
The Flying Dutchman
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linked to:
Der fliegende Holländer
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| workTitleInGerman | Der fliegende Holländer ⓘ |
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 a supporting character in Richard Wagner’s opera "Der fliegende Holländer," typically portrayed as Senta’s nurse or confidante within the story’s coastal Norwegian setting.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.