Mary Tavy
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Mary Tavy is a village on the western edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England, historically known for its mining industry and scenic rural setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Tavy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8597755 — 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 Tavy Context triple: [River Tavy, flowsThrough, Mary Tavy]
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A.
Mary Bland
Mary Bland was a member of the prominent Virginia Bland family and the mother of Revolutionary-era planter and politician Henry Lee II.
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B.
Elizabeth Tyree
Elizabeth Tyree was an American stage actress and philanthropist known for her leadership in organizing theatrical community support efforts during World War I.
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C.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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D.
Margaret Avery
Margaret Avery is an American actress best known for her Academy Award–nominated performance as Shug Avery in the film adaptation of "The Color Purple."
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E.
Elizabeth Feake
Elizabeth Feake was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the wife of military officer and colonial leader John Underhill.
- 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 Tavy Target entity description: Mary Tavy is a village on the western edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England, historically known for its mining industry and scenic rural setting.
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A.
Mary Bland
Mary Bland was a member of the prominent Virginia Bland family and the mother of Revolutionary-era planter and politician Henry Lee II.
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B.
Elizabeth Tyree
Elizabeth Tyree was an American stage actress and philanthropist known for her leadership in organizing theatrical community support efforts during World War I.
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C.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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D.
Margaret Avery
Margaret Avery is an American actress best known for her Academy Award–nominated performance as Shug Avery in the film adaptation of "The Color Purple."
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E.
Elizabeth Feake
Elizabeth Feake was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the wife of military officer and colonial leader John Underhill.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| administrativeArea | West Devon borough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Dartmoor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Villages in Devon ⓘ |
| ceremonialCounty | Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| civilParish | Mary Tavy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| dialCode | 01822 ⓘ |
| etymologyRelatedTo | River Tavy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
local shop
ⓘ
public house ⓘ village hall ⓘ |
| hasChurch | St Mary’s Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
former mining sites
ⓘ
moorland landscape ⓘ rural farmland ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeDesignationNearby | Dartmoor National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyReservoir | Mary Tavy hydroelectric power station reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement |
Brentor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lydford NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Tavy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPowerInfrastructure | Mary Tavy hydroelectric power station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimarySchool | Mary Tavy and Brentor Community Primary School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoadAccessVia | A386 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransport | bus services to Tavistock ⓘ |
| historicalActivity |
copper mining
ⓘ
tin mining ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodOfMiningPeak | 19th century ⓘ |
| historicCounty | Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
mining industry
ⓘ
scenic rural setting ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Devon ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
River Tavy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tavistock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | western edge of Dartmoor ⓘ |
| locatedWithin | Dartmoor area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestLargeTown | Tavistock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| OSGridReference | SX 512 802 ⓘ |
| parliamentaryConstituency | Torridge and West Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postcodeArea | PL ⓘ |
| postcodeDistrict | PL19 ⓘ |
| postTown | Tavistock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
southwest England
ⓘ
surface form:
South West England
|
| shireCounty | Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shireDistrict | West Devon 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 Tavy Description of subject: Mary Tavy is a village on the western edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England, historically known for its mining industry and scenic rural setting.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.