Mary Holden
E164077
Mary Holden is a character portrayed by Judy Garland in the 1940 MGM musical film "Strike Up the Band."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Holden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1017541 — 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 Holden Context triple: [Strike Up the Band, hasJudyGarlandRole, Mary Holden]
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A.
Mary Perkins Oglesby
Mary Perkins Oglesby was the mother of pioneering American film director D. W. Griffith.
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B.
Mary Crosby
Mary Crosby is an American actress best known for her role as Kristin Shepard on the television series "Dallas."
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C.
Caroline Allpass
Caroline Allpass was the first wife of British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe, whose life was cut short in a car accident in the early 1970s.
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D.
Yvonne Roberts
Yvonne Roberts is a British journalist and writer known for her work on social issues, politics, and feminism.
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E.
Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine is an American actress known for her warm, soulful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "Waiting to Exhale" and the TV series "Grey's Anatomy."
- 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 Holden Target entity description: Mary Holden is a character portrayed by Judy Garland in the 1940 MGM musical film "Strike Up the Band."
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A.
Mary Perkins Oglesby
Mary Perkins Oglesby was the mother of pioneering American film director D. W. Griffith.
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B.
Mary Crosby
Mary Crosby is an American actress best known for her role as Kristin Shepard on the television series "Dallas."
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C.
Caroline Allpass
Caroline Allpass was the first wife of British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe, whose life was cut short in a car accident in the early 1970s.
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D.
Yvonne Roberts
Yvonne Roberts is a British journalist and writer known for her work on social issues, politics, and feminism.
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E.
Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine is an American actress known for her warm, soulful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "Waiting to Exhale" and the TV series "Grey's Anatomy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Strike Up the Band ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Strike Up the Band ⓘ |
| castMemberWith |
Ann Shoemaker
ⓘ
Francis Pierlot ⓘ George Lessey ⓘ June Preisser ⓘ Margaret Early ⓘ Mickey Rooney ⓘ Paul Whiteman ⓘ Virginia Brissac ⓘ William Tracy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| directorOfWork | Busby Berkeley ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Strike Up the Band
ⓘ
surface form:
Strike Up the Band (film universe)
|
| genre | musical film character ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| musicByInWork |
George Gershwin
ⓘ
Ira Gershwin ⓘ Roger Edens ⓘ |
| notableWork | Strike Up the Band ⓘ |
| partOf | Strike Up the Band (1940 film) ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Judy Garland ⓘ |
| portrayedInYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWork | MGM ⓘ |
| yearOfAppearance | 1940 ⓘ |
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 Holden Description of subject: Mary Holden is a character portrayed by Judy Garland in the 1940 MGM musical film "Strike Up the Band."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.