Mary Fagan
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Mary Fagan is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Fagan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Fagan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7549288 — 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 Fagan Context triple: [Fagan, hasNotableBearer, Mary Fagan]
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A.
Mary Fawcett
Mary Fawcett was the mother of British academic and politician Henry Fawcett, a noted 19th-century economist and Postmaster General.
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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Elizabeth Fones
Elizabeth Fones was a 17th-century English colonist in New England, known for her complex marital history and as a niece and daughter-in-law of Puritan leader John Winthrop.
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D.
Marion Kilpatrick
Marion Kilpatrick was the wife of American conservative columnist and television commentator James J. Kilpatrick.
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E.
Mary Robbins
Mary Robbins is known as the mother of American actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins.
- 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 Fagan Target entity description: Mary Fagan is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Fagan.
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A.
Mary Fawcett
Mary Fawcett was the mother of British academic and politician Henry Fawcett, a noted 19th-century economist and Postmaster General.
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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Elizabeth Fones
Elizabeth Fones was a 17th-century English colonist in New England, known for her complex marital history and as a niece and daughter-in-law of Puritan leader John Winthrop.
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D.
Marion Kilpatrick
Marion Kilpatrick was the wife of American conservative columnist and television commentator James J. Kilpatrick.
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E.
Mary Robbins
Mary Robbins is known as the mother of American actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Fagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Fagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Mary Fagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a bearer of the surname Fagan ⓘ |
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 Fagan Description of subject: Mary Fagan is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Fagan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.