Mary
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Mary of Lancaster was a 14th-century English noblewoman, daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, and a member of the influential House of Lancaster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10411762 — 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: [Mary of Lancaster, givenName, Mary]
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Mary
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, was a daughter of King George V and Queen Mary of the United Kingdom and a prominent British royal figure in the early to mid-20th century.
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Mary
Mary is a significant urban and economic center in southeastern Turkmenistan, known for its role in the country’s natural gas and cotton industries.
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Mary
Mary is a fictional character in B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community’s young members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
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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 J. Blige, the acclaimed American singer, songwriter, and actress often called the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul."
- 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 of Lancaster was a 14th-century English noblewoman, daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, and a member of the influential House of Lancaster.
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Mary
Mary of York was a 15th-century English princess, the second daughter of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.
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Mary
Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany, was a 14th-century English princess and daughter of King Edward III who became duchess through her marriage to John IV, Duke of Brittany.
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Mary
Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy, was a 15th-century noblewoman from the influential Burgundian dynasty who became Duchess consort of Savoy through marriage.
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Mary
Mary was a 16th-century Habsburg archduchess who became Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia through her marriage to King Louis II.
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Mary
Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, was the eldest daughter of King Charles I of England and the wife of William II of Orange, making her a key figure in 17th-century Anglo-Dutch royal relations.
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Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noblewoman
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medieval noble ⓘ |
| ancestor | Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | Plantagenet dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Lancastrian branch of the Plantagenets ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 14th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| father | Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | 14th century ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| greatGrandfather | Henry III of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Medieval England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House of Plantagenet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | Middle English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection |
descendant of Henry III of England
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member of a cadet branch of the English royal family ⓘ |
| parent | Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialRank | nobility ⓘ |
| titleHeld | Lady of the House of Lancaster ⓘ |
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 of Lancaster was a 14th-century English noblewoman, daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, and a member of the influential House of Lancaster.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.