Mary
E138799
Mary is a fictional character in B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community’s young members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T981643 — 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 Context triple: [Walden Two, featuresCharacter, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is a minor character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom's kind and well-behaved cousin.
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B.
Mary
Mary is a significant urban and economic center in southeastern Turkmenistan, known for its role in the country’s natural gas and cotton industries.
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Mary
Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, was the eldest daughter of King Charles I of England and the wife of William II of Orange, making her a key figure in 17th-century Anglo-Dutch royal relations.
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D.
Mary
Mary is a central figure in Christianity, venerated as the mother of Jesus and often honored as the Virgin Mary.
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E.
Mary
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, was a daughter of King George V and Queen Mary of the United Kingdom and a prominent British royal figure in the early to mid-20th century.
- 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 Target entity description: Mary is a fictional character in B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community’s young members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
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Mary
Mary is a minor character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom's kind and well-behaved cousin.
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B.
Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Everest Boole, a 19th-century mathematics educator known for her innovative ideas on teaching mathematics, especially to children.
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Mary
Mary is the first name of the American writer better known as Flannery O'Connor, a major figure in 20th-century Southern Gothic literature.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th-century English writer and advocate of women's rights.
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Mary
Mary is the given first name of Margaret Truman, the daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and a noted author and singer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Character in a novel
ⓘ
Fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Walden Two ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Walden Two
ⓘ
surface form:
Utopian community of Walden Two
|
| basedOnTheory |
behaviorism
ⓘ
surface form:
Behaviorism
|
| characterType | Resident of experimental community ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
B. F. Skinner (born Burrhus Frederic Skinner)
ⓘ
surface form:
B. F. Skinner
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| depictedAs | Young member of the Walden Two community ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Walden Two ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | Utopian novel ⓘ |
| hasAuthorProfessionOfCreator |
Behaviorist
ⓘ
Psychologist ⓘ |
| hasThemeInWork |
Planned community
ⓘ
Scientific control of behavior ⓘ Social engineering ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | Literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | Illustrates effects of behaviorist conditioning on youth ⓘ |
| partOf |
Walden Two
ⓘ
surface form:
Community of Walden Two
|
| roleInWork | Representative of behaviorist upbringing in Walden Two ⓘ |
| setIn |
Walden Two
ⓘ
surface form:
Walden Two community
|
| shapedBy | Behaviorist social principles ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| workTitle | Walden Two ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Mary is a fictional character in B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community’s young members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.