Mary Brewster
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Mary Brewster was a member of the Mayflower Pilgrims and the wife of William Brewster, one of the leading figures of Plymouth Colony.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Brewster canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10967474 — 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 Brewster Context triple: [Fear Brewster, mother, Mary Brewster]
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A.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was the wife of American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution William Samuel Johnson.
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B.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was a social reformer and nurse best known as a co-founder of New York City's pioneering Henry Street Settlement, which provided social services and healthcare to impoverished communities.
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C.
Mary Brownson
Mary Brownson was the wife of American Revolutionary War patriot and Green Mountain Boys leader Ethan Allen.
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D.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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E.
Betty Furness
Betty Furness was an American actress and television personality best known for her film roles in the 1930s and later as a pioneering consumer affairs advocate on TV.
- 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 Brewster Target entity description: Mary Brewster was a member of the Mayflower Pilgrims and the wife of William Brewster, one of the leading figures of Plymouth Colony.
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A.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was a social reformer and nurse best known as a co-founder of New York City's pioneering Henry Street Settlement, which provided social services and healthcare to impoverished communities.
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B.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was the wife of American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution William Samuel Johnson.
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C.
Mary Brownson
Mary Brownson was the wife of American Revolutionary War patriot and Green Mountain Boys leader Ethan Allen.
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D.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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E.
Betty Furness
Betty Furness was an American actress and television personality best known for her film roles in the 1930s and later as a pioneering consumer affairs advocate on TV.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayflower passenger
ⓘ
Pilgrim ⓘ colonist of Plymouth Colony ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mayflower Compact signers’ families
ⓘ
Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Brewster ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Mary ⓘ |
| lifeEvent | emigrated from England to North America with the Mayflower Pilgrims ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Pilgrim Separatist community
ⓘ
linked to:
Pilgrim Separatists
|
| notableFor |
being a member of the Mayflower Pilgrims
ⓘ
being the wife of Plymouth Colony leader William Brewster ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant
ⓘ
Separatist ⓘ |
| residence |
England (before migration)
ⓘ
linked to:
England
Plymouth, Plymouth Colony ⓘ
linked to:
Plymouth, Massachusetts
|
| roleInColony | early settler of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| spouse | William Brewster ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor | being a leading figure of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
Plymouth Colony elder
ⓘ
religious leader ⓘ |
| traveledOn | Mayflower ⓘ |
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 Brewster Description of subject: Mary Brewster was a member of the Mayflower Pilgrims and the wife of William Brewster, one of the leading figures of Plymouth Colony.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.