Mary Poppins
E115201
Mary Poppins is a magical, whimsical English nanny from P. L. Travers’ children’s books and the classic Disney film, known for her strict yet kind demeanor and fantastical adventures.
All labels observed (17)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971509 — 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 Poppins Context triple: [Nanny McPhee, similarTo, Mary Poppins]
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A.
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins Returns is a 2018 musical fantasy film and sequel to the 1964 classic, featuring Emily Blunt as the magical nanny who returns to help the next generation of the Banks family in Depression-era London.
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B.
Matilda
Matilda was the regnal name of Edith of Scotland, who became Queen consort of England as the wife of King Henry I.
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C.
Matilda
Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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D.
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a classic animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney that follows the adventures of a boy who never grows up and his friends in the magical world of Neverland.
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E.
Paddington
Paddington is a central London district best known for its major railway station, historic canal basin, and association with the fictional Paddington Bear.
- 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 Poppins Target entity description: Mary Poppins is a magical, whimsical English nanny from P. L. Travers’ children’s books and the classic Disney film, known for her strict yet kind demeanor and fantastical adventures.
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A.
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins Returns is a 2018 musical fantasy film and sequel to the 1964 classic, featuring Emily Blunt as the magical nanny who returns to help the next generation of the Banks family in Depression-era London.
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B.
Matilda
Matilda was the regnal name of Edith of Scotland, who became Queen consort of England as the wife of King Henry I.
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C.
Matilda
Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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D.
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a classic animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney that follows the adventures of a boy who never grows up and his friends in the magical world of Neverland.
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E.
Paddington
Paddington is a central London district best known for its major railway station, historic canal basin, and association with the fictional Paddington Bear.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| alignment | benevolent ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Mary Poppins
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mary Poppins (1964 film)
Mary Poppins self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Poppins (book series)
Mary Poppins self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Poppins (stage musical)
Mary Poppins Returns ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Poppins Returns (2018 film)
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| associatedWithCharacter |
Bert
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George Banks ⓘ Jane Banks ⓘ Michael Banks ⓘ Winifred Banks ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily | Banks family ⓘ |
| catchphrase |
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
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Practically perfect in every way ⓘ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
kind
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strict ⓘ whimsical ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | P. L. Travers ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInWork |
Mary Poppins
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mary Poppins (novel)
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| firstPublicationDate | 1934 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
entering paintings
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flying with an umbrella ⓘ levitation ⓘ magic ⓘ sliding up banisters ⓘ talking to animals ⓘ |
| inspiredAdaptation |
Mary Poppins
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Poppins (1964 Disney film)
Mary Poppins self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Poppins (stage musical)
Mary Poppins Returns ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Poppins Returns (2018 film)
|
| literaryGenreOfCharacter | nonsense literature ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | nanny ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Mary Poppins
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mary Poppins book series
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| portrayedBy |
Emily Blunt
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Julie Andrews ⓘ |
| publisherOfOriginalWork |
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd
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surface form:
Gerald Howe Ltd
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| residence | 17 Cherry Tree Lane ⓘ |
| setting |
Edwardian era
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surface form:
Edwardian London
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| targetAudience |
children
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family ⓘ |
| usesItem |
carpetbag
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parrot-head umbrella ⓘ |
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 Poppins Description of subject: Mary Poppins is a magical, whimsical English nanny from P. L. Travers’ children’s books and the classic Disney film, known for her strict yet kind demeanor and fantastical adventures.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
P. L. Travers
subject surface form:
Katie Nanna
this entity surface form:
Mary Poppins (1964 film)
subject surface form:
Katie Nanna
subject surface form:
Elsa Lanchester
subject surface form:
Bird Woman (Mary Poppins, 1964 film)
this entity surface form:
Mary Poppins (1964 film)
subject surface form:
Bird Woman (Mary Poppins, 1964 film)
this entity surface form:
Mary Poppins (book series)
this entity surface form:
Mary Poppins (1964 film)
subject surface form:
Bert
subject surface form:
Bert
this entity surface form:
Mary Poppins (1964 film)
subject surface form:
Bert
subject surface form:
Bert
this entity surface form:
Mary Poppins (1964 film)