Mary (album)
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Mary is a 1999 R&B and soul studio album by American singer Mary J. Blige that marked a more mature, classic-soul direction in her music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary (album) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13027622 — 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 (album) Context triple: [No More Drama, previousWork, Mary (album)]
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A.
Mary in the Morning
"Mary in the Morning" is a romantic pop song popularized by American singer Al Martino in the 1960s.
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B.
Take a Message to Mary
"Take a Message to Mary" is a 1959 country-pop ballad by the Everly Brothers about a man in jail asking a friend to tell his fiancée he has left her, without revealing his imprisonment.
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C.
Mother
"Mother" is a Pink Floyd song from their rock opera album *The Wall*, exploring themes of overprotective parenting and emotional isolation.
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D.
Mother
"Mother" is a 2009 South Korean psychological thriller film by director Bong Joon-ho, centered on a mother's desperate quest to prove her son's innocence in a murder case.
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E.
Mother
Mother is a character in Maurice Ravel’s one-act opera "L’enfant et les sortilèges," representing the scolding parent whose reprimands help trigger the child’s fantastical journey.
- 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 (album) Target entity description: Mary is a 1999 R&B and soul studio album by American singer Mary J. Blige that marked a more mature, classic-soul direction in her music.
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A.
Mary in the Morning
"Mary in the Morning" is a romantic pop song popularized by American singer Al Martino in the 1960s.
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B.
Take a Message to Mary
"Take a Message to Mary" is a 1959 country-pop ballad by the Everly Brothers about a man in jail asking a friend to tell his fiancée he has left her, without revealing his imprisonment.
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C.
Mother
"Mother" is a Pink Floyd song from their rock opera album *The Wall*, exploring themes of overprotective parenting and emotional isolation.
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D.
Mother
Mother is a 1926 Soviet silent drama film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, renowned for its pioneering use of montage and its powerful depiction of revolutionary struggle.
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E.
Mother
Mother is a character in Maurice Ravel’s one-act opera "L’enfant et les sortilèges," representing the scolding parent whose reprimands help trigger the child’s fantastical journey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Mary J. Blige NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| follows | Share My World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasArtistRole | lead vocalist Mary J. Blige ⓘ |
| hasAudience |
R&B listeners
ⓘ
soul music listeners ⓘ |
| hasMatureSound | true ⓘ |
| hasProductionStyle |
R&B production
ⓘ
soul-influenced production ⓘ |
| hasReleaseFormat |
CD
ⓘ
audio cassette ⓘ digital ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrackType | vocal songs ⓘ |
| hasType |
R&B album
ⓘ
soul album ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainVocalist | Mary J. Blige NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalDirection |
adult contemporary R&B
ⓘ
classic soul ⓘ |
| notableFor |
classic-soul influences
ⓘ
more mature sound for Mary J. Blige ⓘ |
| performer | Mary J. Blige NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingArtistNationality | American ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1999 ⓘ |
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 (album) Description of subject: Mary is a 1999 R&B and soul studio album by American singer Mary J. Blige that marked a more mature, classic-soul direction in her music.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
No More Drama