Mary
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Mary is the middle name of Edith Tolkien, the wife of author J.R.R. Tolkien.
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 T7595817 — 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: [Edith Tolkien, middleName, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th-century English writer and advocate of women's rights.
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Mary
Mary is the middle name of Theresa May, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Mary
Mary I of England was the 16th-century Queen of England and Ireland best known for her attempt to restore Roman Catholicism and for the Marian persecutions that earned her the nickname "Bloody Mary."
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Mary
Mary is a studio album by Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie, known for its highlife influences and tribute to his late grandmother.
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Mary
Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger and one of the early settlers of Plymouth Colony in 17th-century New England.
- 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 middle name of Edith Tolkien, the wife of author J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Mary
Mary is the middle name of Enid Mary Pollock, an individual about whom limited public information is available.
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Mary
Mary is the middle name of the fictional character Gwendoline Mary Lacey from Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series.
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Mary
Mary is the middle name of Theresa May, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Mary
Mary is the middle name of Katherine Mary Dewar, a component of her full personal name.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Sidney, an English Renaissance noblewoman, writer, and literary patron.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mary Edith Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Edith Mary Bratt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Wolvercote Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| buriedWith | J. R. R. Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1889-01-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1971-11-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Edith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Francis Reuel Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Hilary Reuel Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Priscilla Anne Reuel Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspired | the character Lúthien Tinúviel in Tolkien's legendarium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Mary Edith Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | conversion to Roman Catholicism at the insistence of J. R. R. Tolkien’s guardian ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| occupation | pianist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bournemouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
J. R. R. Tolkien
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
J. R. R. Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Edith Tolkien 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 Description of subject: Mary is the middle name of Edith Tolkien, the wife of author J.R.R. Tolkien.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.