Mary Williams (informally adopted)
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Mary Williams (informally adopted) is the informally adopted daughter of actress and activist Jane Fonda, known for her connection to Fonda’s family and her own work in social and humanitarian causes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Williams (adopted) | 1 |
| Mary Williams (informally adopted) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7626806 — 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 Williams (informally adopted) Context triple: [Jane Fonda, hasChild, Mary Williams (informally adopted)]
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A.
Sophia Williams
Sophia Williams is a fictional character in Patrick O'Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin series, best known as the intelligent and steadfast wife of Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey.
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B.
Jane Williams
Jane Williams is a British theologian and writer, known for her work in Christian theology and for being married to former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
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C.
Jane Williams
Jane Williams was a member of the Shelley circle, the literary and intellectual group surrounding Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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D.
Mary Williams
Mary Williams was the wife of American planter and statesman Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial South Carolina.
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E.
Lucy Marshall
Lucy Marshall is known primarily as the daughter of Thomas Marshall.
- 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 Williams (informally adopted) Target entity description: Mary Williams (informally adopted) is the informally adopted daughter of actress and activist Jane Fonda, known for her connection to Fonda’s family and her own work in social and humanitarian causes.
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A.
Sophia Williams
Sophia Williams is a fictional character in Patrick O'Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin series, best known as the intelligent and steadfast wife of Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey.
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B.
Jane Williams
Jane Williams is a British theologian and writer, known for her work in Christian theology and for being married to former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
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C.
Jane Williams
Jane Williams was a member of the Shelley circle, the literary and intellectual group surrounding Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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D.
Mary Williams
Mary Williams was the wife of American planter and statesman Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial South Carolina.
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E.
Lucy Marshall
Lucy Marshall is known primarily as the daughter of Thomas Marshall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| adoptionType | informal adoption ⓘ |
| adoptiveMother | Jane Fonda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | social activist ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Jane Fonda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
connection to Jane Fonda’s family
ⓘ
humanitarian work ⓘ social causes ⓘ |
| name | Mary Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Fonda family 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 Williams (informally adopted) Description of subject: Mary Williams (informally adopted) is the informally adopted daughter of actress and activist Jane Fonda, known for her connection to Fonda’s family and her own work in social and humanitarian causes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mary Williams (adopted)