Mary Hayley Bell
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Mary Hayley Bell was a British novelist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for her novel "Whistle Down the Wind," which was adapted into a successful film and stage musical.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Hayley Bell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5141332 — 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 Hayley Bell Context triple: [Hayley Mills, mother, Mary Hayley Bell]
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A.
Mary Ryall
Mary Ryall is the daughter of mathematician and educationalist Mary Everest Boole.
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B.
Lucy Ridsdale
Lucy Ridsdale was the wife of British Conservative statesman and three-time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
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C.
Eve Halliday
Eve Halliday is a central, quick-witted and independent female character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Psmith series, notably appearing as a love interest and foil to Psmith in "Leave it to Psmith."
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D.
Bess Macauley
Bess Macauley is the central protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," around whom the story’s emotional and moral themes revolve.
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E.
Ruby Frewen
Ruby Frewen was the wife of prominent British lawyer and Unionist politician Edward Carson, later Lord Carson.
- 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 Hayley Bell Target entity description: Mary Hayley Bell was a British novelist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for her novel "Whistle Down the Wind," which was adapted into a successful film and stage musical.
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A.
Mary Ryall
Mary Ryall is the daughter of mathematician and educationalist Mary Everest Boole.
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B.
Lucy Ridsdale
Lucy Ridsdale was the wife of British Conservative statesman and three-time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
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C.
Eve Halliday
Eve Halliday is a central, quick-witted and independent female character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Psmith series, notably appearing as a love interest and foil to Psmith in "Leave it to Psmith."
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D.
Bess Macauley
Bess Macauley is the central protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," around whom the story’s emotional and moral themes revolve.
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E.
Ruby Frewen
Ruby Frewen was the wife of prominent British lawyer and Unionist politician Edward Carson, later Lord Carson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Whistle Down the Wind (1961 film)
NERFINISHED
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Whistle Down the Wind (musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Mary Hayley Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Hayley Mills
NERFINISHED
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Jonathan Mills NERFINISHED ⓘ Juliet Mills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1911-01-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2005-12-01 ⓘ |
| familyName | Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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fiction ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mary Hayley Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Hayley Mills
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Juliet Mills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Uninvited Guest
NERFINISHED
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Whistle Down the Wind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
China
NERFINISHED
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Shanghai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Buckinghamshire
NERFINISHED
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Denham NERFINISHED ⓘ England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Denham
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | John Mills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
The Uninvited Guest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Whistle Down the Wind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Hayley Bell Description of subject: Mary Hayley Bell was a British novelist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for her novel "Whistle Down the Wind," which was adapted into a successful film and stage musical.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.