Mary Alice Spry
E669587
Mary Alice Spry was the woman who served as the sponsor of the U.S. Navy battleship USS Utah at its launching ceremony.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Alice Spry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6295547 — 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 Alice Spry Context triple: [USS Utah, sponsoredBy, Mary Alice Spry]
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A.
Elsie Wheeler
Elsie Wheeler was the wife of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, the pioneering American comic book publisher who founded the company that would become DC Comics.
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B.
Mary Richards
Mary Richards is the independent, career-focused television news producer portrayed by Mary Tyler Moore on the influential 1970s sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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C.
Mary Morris
Mary "May" Morris was a British artisan, designer, and influential figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, known especially for her innovative embroidery and textile work.
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D.
Mary Alice Beistle
Mary Alice Beistle was the wife of abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko and the mother of his two children.
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E.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
- 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 Alice Spry Target entity description: Mary Alice Spry was the woman who served as the sponsor of the U.S. Navy battleship USS Utah at its launching ceremony.
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A.
Elsie Wheeler
Elsie Wheeler was the wife of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, the pioneering American comic book publisher who founded the company that would become DC Comics.
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B.
Mary Richards
Mary Richards is the independent, career-focused television news producer portrayed by Mary Tyler Moore on the influential 1970s sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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C.
Mary Morris
Mary "May" Morris was a British artisan, designer, and influential figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, known especially for her innovative embroidery and textile work.
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D.
Mary Alice Beistle
Mary Alice Beistle was the wife of abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko and the mother of his two children.
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E.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
ship sponsor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as sponsor of USS Utah at its launching ceremony ⓘ |
| sponsorOf |
USS Utah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
USS Utah (BB-31) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sponsorRole | launching ceremony sponsor ⓘ |
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 Alice Spry Description of subject: Mary Alice Spry was the woman who served as the sponsor of the U.S. Navy battleship USS Utah at its launching ceremony.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.