Mary Walsh James
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Mary Walsh James was the mother of novelist Henry James and a member of the prominent 19th-century James family known for its intellectual and literary influence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Walsh James canonical | 7 |
| Mary Walsh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T402546 — 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 Walsh James Context triple: [Henry James, mother, Mary Walsh James]
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A.
Josephine Dillon
Josephine Dillon was an American acting coach and the first wife of film star Clark Gable, known for helping develop his early career in Hollywood.
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B.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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C.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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D.
Rachel Marron
Rachel Marron is a famous pop singer and actress who becomes the client and love interest of a former Secret Service agent in the romantic thriller film "The Bodyguard."
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E.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
- 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 Walsh James Target entity description: Mary Walsh James was the mother of novelist Henry James and a member of the prominent 19th-century James family known for its intellectual and literary influence.
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A.
Josephine Dillon
Josephine Dillon was an American acting coach and the first wife of film star Clark Gable, known for helping develop his early career in Hollywood.
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B.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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C.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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D.
Rachel Marron
Rachel Marron is a famous pop singer and actress who becomes the client and love interest of a former Secret Service agent in the romantic thriller film "The Bodyguard."
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E.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother of Henry James ⓘ |
| birthName |
Mary Walsh James
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Walsh
|
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| child |
Alice James
ⓘ
Garth Wilkinson James ⓘ Henry James ⓘ Robertson James ⓘ William James ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| familyName | James ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| memberOf | James family ⓘ |
| notableFamily | James family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a member of the 19th-century James family known for intellectual and literary influence
ⓘ
being the mother of novelist Henry James ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Alice James
ⓘ
Henry James ⓘ Henry James Sr. ⓘ William James ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| residence |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Henry James Sr. ⓘ |
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 Walsh James Description of subject: Mary Walsh James was the mother of novelist Henry James and a member of the prominent 19th-century James family known for its intellectual and literary influence.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mary Walsh
subject surface form:
Henry James
subject surface form:
William James
subject surface form:
Alice James