Mary Tan
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Mary Tan is the wife of former Singaporean President Tony Tan Keng Yam and a public figure known for her support of social and community causes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Tan canonical | 2 |
| 玛丽·陈（Mary Tan） | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10350168 — 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 Tan Context triple: [Tony Tan Keng Yam, spouse, Mary Tan]
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A.
Alice Tan
Alice Tan is one of the namesakes of the College of Alice and Peter Tan at the National University of Singapore, recognized for her contributions alongside Peter Tan.
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B.
Alice Tan Ridley
Alice Tan Ridley is an American gospel and R&B singer best known for her powerful performances in New York City subways and on "America's Got Talent," as well as being the mother of actress Gabourey Sidibe.
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C.
Eileen Loo
Eileen Loo was the wife of renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei and a supportive partner throughout his celebrated career.
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D.
Rosalie Chiang
Rosalie Chiang is an American actress best known for voicing the main character, Meilin "Mei" Lee, in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red."
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E.
Fay Chang
Fay Chang is a computer scientist known for co-authoring the influential Google Bigtable paper on large-scale distributed storage systems.
- 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 Tan Target entity description: Mary Tan is the wife of former Singaporean President Tony Tan Keng Yam and a public figure known for her support of social and community causes.
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A.
Alice Tan
Alice Tan is one of the namesakes of the College of Alice and Peter Tan at the National University of Singapore, recognized for her contributions alongside Peter Tan.
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B.
Alice Tan Ridley
Alice Tan Ridley is an American gospel and R&B singer best known for her powerful performances in New York City subways and on "America's Got Talent," as well as being the mother of actress Gabourey Sidibe.
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C.
Eileen Loo
Eileen Loo was the wife of renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei and a supportive partner throughout his celebrated career.
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D.
Rosalie Chiang
Rosalie Chiang is an American actress best known for voicing the main character, Meilin "Mei" Lee, in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red."
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E.
Fay Chang
Fay Chang is a computer scientist known for co-authoring the influential Google Bigtable paper on large-scale distributed storage systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
public figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Presidential residence of Singapore ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Asia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Singapore ⓘ |
| knownFor |
community engagement
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public service ⓘ social advocacy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Mary Tan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
support of community causes
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support of social causes ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Singapore ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Spouse of the President of Singapore ⓘ |
| publicRole | First Lady of Singapore ⓘ |
| relative | Tony Tan Keng Yam ⓘ |
| residence | Singapore ⓘ |
| spouse | Tony Tan Keng Yam ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
President of Singapore
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politician ⓘ |
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 Tan Description of subject: Mary Tan is the wife of former Singaporean President Tony Tan Keng Yam and a public figure known for her support of social and community causes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.