Mary Shepherd
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Mary Shepherd was a British philosopher known for her early 19th-century work on causation and metaphysics, which challenged the ideas of David Hume.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Shepherd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14699630 — 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 Shepherd Context triple: [Miss Shepherd, basedOn, Mary Shepherd]
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A.
Catherine Shepherd
Catherine Shepherd is a woman known as the mother of Elijah Carlile.
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B.
Catherine Shepherd
Catherine Shepherd is a British former actress and charity worker best known as the wife of American singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile.
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C.
Mary Pugh
Mary Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Pugh.
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D.
Mary Glynne
Mary Glynne was a 19th-century British woman best known as the mother of senior British Army officer Sir Neville Lyttelton and a member of the prominent Glynne family.
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E.
Mary Sheffield
Mary Sheffield was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notable as the daughter of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and the mother of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
- 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 Shepherd Target entity description: Mary Shepherd was a British philosopher known for her early 19th-century work on causation and metaphysics, which challenged the ideas of David Hume.
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A.
Catherine Shepherd
Catherine Shepherd is a woman known as the mother of Elijah Carlile.
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B.
Catherine Shepherd
Catherine Shepherd is a British former actress and charity worker best known as the wife of American singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile.
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C.
Mary Pugh
Mary Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Pugh.
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D.
Mary Glynne
Mary Glynne was a 19th-century British woman best known as the mother of senior British Army officer Sir Neville Lyttelton and a member of the prominent Glynne family.
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E.
Mary Sheffield
Mary Sheffield was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notable as the daughter of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and the mother of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Miss Shepherd