Mary Ellis
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Mary Ellis was a British actress known for her work on stage and screen in the early to mid-20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Ellis canonical | 4 |
| Mary-Ellis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8156604 — 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 Ellis Context triple: [Basil Sydney, spouse, Mary Ellis]
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A.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Sarah Ellis
Sarah Ellis was the wife of Confederate General William J. Hardee, known primarily through her association with his military and social prominence in the 19th-century American South.
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C.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Elizabeth Solley
Elizabeth Solley is a central character in John Carpenter’s 1980 horror film "The Fog," portrayed as a young hitchhiker who becomes entangled in the supernatural events haunting the coastal town of Antonio Bay.
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E.
Mary Anne Dalton
Mary Anne Dalton is best known as the former wife of American comedian and actor Tim Conway.
- 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 Ellis Target entity description: Mary Ellis was a British actress known for her work on stage and screen in the early to mid-20th century.
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A.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Sarah Ellis
Sarah Ellis was the wife of Confederate General William J. Hardee, known primarily through her association with his military and social prominence in the 19th-century American South.
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C.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Elizabeth Solley
Elizabeth Solley is a central character in John Carpenter’s 1980 horror film "The Fog," portrayed as a young hitchhiker who becomes entangled in the supernatural events haunting the coastal town of Antonio Bay.
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E.
Mary Anne Dalton
Mary Anne Dalton is best known as the former wife of American comedian and actor Tim Conway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 20th century
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mid-20th century ⓘ |
| citizenshipChange | emigrated from the United States to the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer |
Broadway theatre
ⓘ
linked to:
Broadway theater
West End theatre ⓘ |
| familyName | Ellis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
opera ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
ⓘ
opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mary Ellis ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
film performances in the early to mid-20th century
ⓘ
stage performances in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| notableWork |
appearances in British films
ⓘ
stage roles in operettas ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workedIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
New York City ⓘ |
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 Ellis Description of subject: Mary Ellis was a British actress known for her work on stage and screen in the early to mid-20th century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.