Mary
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Mary is the birth name of American actress Billie Burke, best known for playing Glinda the Good Witch in "The Wizard of Oz."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2666077 — 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: [Billie Burke, givenName, Mary]
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the given first name of the acclaimed American actress Meryl Streep.
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D.
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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E.
Mary
Mary Eleanor Darwin was a member of the Darwin family, known primarily as a descendant of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
- 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 the birth name of American actress Billie Burke, best known for playing Glinda the Good Witch in "The Wizard of Oz."
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Mary
Mary is the birth name of the acclaimed British actress Vivien Leigh, renowned for her roles in "Gone with the Wind" and "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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B.
Mary
Mary is the birth name of American actress, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds, a major Hollywood star of the mid-20th century.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the given first name of the acclaimed American actress Meryl Streep.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Cassatt, the renowned American Impressionist painter known for her depictions of women and children.
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E.
Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Shelley, the English novelist best known as the author of "Frankenstein."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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human ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Billie Burke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Wizard of Oz ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| portrayed | Glinda the Good Witch ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke ⓘ |
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 the birth name of American actress Billie Burke, best known for playing Glinda the Good Witch in "The Wizard of Oz."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.