Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley was an English novelist best known as the author of the pioneering Gothic and science fiction work "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus."
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Shelley canonical | 69 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | 2 |
| Frankenstein | 1 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | 1 |
| The Bride / Mary Shelley in The Bride of Frankenstein | 1 |
| letters of Mary Shelley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T235686 — 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 Shelley Context triple: [Mary Wollstonecraft, child, Mary Shelley]
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A.
Anna Seward
Anna Seward was an 18th-century English poet and letter-writer, often called the "Swan of Lichfield," known for her literary salons, Romantic verse, and wide correspondence with leading intellectuals of her time.
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B.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist best known for his sensational Gothic novel "The Monk," which made him a central figure in early Gothic literature.
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C.
Abraham Franklin Frankenstein
Abraham Franklin Frankenstein was an American composer best known for writing the music to the state song of California, "I Love You, California."
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D.
Herbert George Wells
Herbert George Wells was an English writer best known as a pioneer of science fiction, authoring classics such as "The War of the Worlds," "The Time Machine," and "The Invisible Man."
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E.
Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe was a pioneering 18th-century English novelist renowned for shaping the Gothic genre with her atmospheric, suspenseful tales and psychologically rich heroines.
- 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 Shelley Target entity description: Mary Shelley was an English novelist best known as the author of the pioneering Gothic and science fiction work "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus."
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A.
Anna Seward
Anna Seward was an 18th-century English poet and letter-writer, often called the "Swan of Lichfield," known for her literary salons, Romantic verse, and wide correspondence with leading intellectuals of her time.
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B.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist best known for his sensational Gothic novel "The Monk," which made him a central figure in early Gothic literature.
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C.
Abraham Franklin Frankenstein
Abraham Franklin Frankenstein was an American composer best known for writing the music to the state song of California, "I Love You, California."
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D.
Herbert George Wells
Herbert George Wells was an English writer best known as a pioneer of science fiction, authoring classics such as "The War of the Worlds," "The Time Machine," and "The Invisible Man."
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E.
Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe was a pioneering 18th-century English novelist renowned for shaping the Gothic genre with her atmospheric, suspenseful tales and psychologically rich heroines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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 Shelley Description of subject: Mary Shelley was an English novelist best known as the author of the pioneering Gothic and science fiction work "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus."
Referenced by (75)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mary Shelley
this entity surface form:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
subject surface form:
Mary Shelley
this entity surface form:
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
subject surface form:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
subject surface form:
Frankenstein (1931 film)