Mary McAfee Atkins
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Mary McAfee Atkins was a Kansas City philanthropist whose bequest helped establish the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary McAfee | 1 |
| Mary McAfee Atkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T329483 — 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 McAfee Atkins Context triple: [Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, namedAfter, Mary McAfee Atkins]
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A.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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B.
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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C.
Mary Fowler Brennan
Mary Fowler Brennan was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter.
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D.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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E.
Ann Fleming
Ann Fleming was a British socialite and literary hostess best known as the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and for her influential role in mid-20th-century London cultural circles.
- 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 McAfee Atkins Target entity description: Mary McAfee Atkins was a Kansas City philanthropist whose bequest helped establish the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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A.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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B.
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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C.
Mary Fowler Brennan
Mary Fowler Brennan was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter.
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D.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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E.
Ann Fleming
Ann Fleming was a British socialite and literary hostess best known as the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and for her influential role in mid-20th-century London cultural circles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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philanthropist ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ⓘ |
| birthName |
Mary McAfee Atkins
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mary McAfee
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| contributedTo | creation of a major art institution in the American Midwest ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Atkins ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | charitable giving ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasBequest | endowment for an art museum in Kansas City ⓘ |
| hasHonor | museum named in part in recognition of her bequest ⓘ |
| influencedCreationOf | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ⓘ |
| knownFor | supporting the arts in Kansas City ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legacy | major benefactor of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bequest that helped establish the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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philanthropy in Kansas City, Missouri ⓘ |
| occupation | philanthropist ⓘ |
| partOf | history of cultural development in Kansas City ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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surface form:
Kansas City, Missouri
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| placeOfBurial |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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surface form:
Kansas City, Missouri
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| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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surface form:
Kansas City, Missouri
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How these facts were elicited
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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 McAfee Atkins Description of subject: Mary McAfee Atkins was a Kansas City philanthropist whose bequest helped establish the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mary McAfee