Mary Ann Singleton
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Mary Ann Singleton is the naive yet determined young woman from Ohio who becomes a central figure navigating love, identity, and community in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series set in 1970s San Francisco.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Ann Singleton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11465734 — 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 Ann Singleton Context triple: [Tales of the City, mainCharacter, Mary Ann Singleton]
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A.
Mary Singleton
Mary Singleton was the mother of renowned American colonial-era portrait painter John Singleton Copley.
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B.
Mary Ann Bertles
Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
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C.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was a member of the Mayflower Pilgrims and the wife of William Brewster, one of the leading figures of Plymouth Colony.
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D.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was the wife of American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution William Samuel Johnson.
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E.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was a social reformer and nurse best known as a co-founder of New York City's pioneering Henry Street Settlement, which provided social services and healthcare to impoverished communities.
- 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 Ann Singleton Target entity description: Mary Ann Singleton is the naive yet determined young woman from Ohio who becomes a central figure navigating love, identity, and community in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series set in 1970s San Francisco.
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A.
Mary Singleton
Mary Singleton was the mother of renowned American colonial-era portrait painter John Singleton Copley.
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B.
Mary Ann Bertles
Mary Ann Bertles was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
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C.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was a member of the Mayflower Pilgrims and the wife of William Brewster, one of the leading figures of Plymouth Colony.
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D.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was the wife of American statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution William Samuel Johnson.
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E.
Mary Brewster
Mary Brewster was a social reformer and nurse best known as a co-founder of New York City's pioneering Henry Street Settlement, which provided social services and healthcare to impoverished communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
Further Tales of the City (2001 miniseries)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
More Tales of the City (1998 miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of the City (1993 miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of the City (2019 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Babycakes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Further Tales of the City NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Ann in Autumn NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Tolliver Lives NERFINISHED ⓘ More Tales of the City NERFINISHED ⓘ Significant Others NERFINISHED ⓘ Sure of You NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of the City NERFINISHED ⓘ The Days of Anna Madrigal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralCharacterIn | Tales of the City series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
determined ⓘ naive ⓘ |
| cityOfResidence | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Armistead Maupin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
community
ⓘ
identity ⓘ love ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Tales of the City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf |
Michael Tolliver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mona Ramsey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | LGBT literature ⓘ |
| literarySeries | Tales of the City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loveInterestOf | Brian Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium |
newspaper serial
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| movesFrom | Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movesTo | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
secretary
ⓘ
talk show host ⓘ television news producer ⓘ |
| origin | Cleveland, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentOf | Shawna Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Laura Linney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | 28 Barbary Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfStory | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Brian Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tenantOf | Anna Madrigal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Ann Singleton Description of subject: Mary Ann Singleton is the naive yet determined young woman from Ohio who becomes a central figure navigating love, identity, and community in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series set in 1970s San Francisco.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.