Maria Friedman
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Maria Friedman is a British actress and singer renowned for her acclaimed performances in West End and Broadway musicals, particularly in the works of Stephen Sondheim.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maria Friedman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12870487 — 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: Maria Friedman Context triple: [Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, notableRecipient, Maria Friedman]
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A.
Francesca Hayward
Francesca Hayward is a British ballet dancer and actress, best known as a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet and for her leading role in the film adaptation of "Cats."
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B.
Tania Raymonde
Tania Raymonde is an American actress best known for her roles in the television series Lost and the legal drama Goliath.
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C.
Elaine Paige
Elaine Paige is an English singer and actress renowned as the "First Lady of British Musical Theatre" for her leading roles in hit West End and Broadway productions such as Evita and Cats.
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D.
Kerry Ellis
Kerry Ellis is a British stage actress and singer best known for her leading roles in West End and Broadway musicals such as Wicked and We Will Rock You.
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E.
Madeleine Mantock
Madeleine Mantock is a British actress known for her roles in genre television series, including prominent parts in action and supernatural dramas.
- 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: Maria Friedman Target entity description: Maria Friedman is a British actress and singer renowned for her acclaimed performances in West End and Broadway musicals, particularly in the works of Stephen Sondheim.
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A.
Francesca Hayward
Francesca Hayward is a British ballet dancer and actress, best known as a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet and for her leading role in the film adaptation of "Cats."
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B.
Tania Raymonde
Tania Raymonde is an American actress best known for her roles in the television series Lost and the legal drama Goliath.
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C.
Elaine Paige
Elaine Paige is an English singer and actress renowned as the "First Lady of British Musical Theatre" for her leading roles in hit West End and Broadway productions such as Evita and Cats.
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D.
Kerry Ellis
Kerry Ellis is a British stage actress and singer best known for her leading roles in West End and Broadway musicals such as Wicked and We Will Rock You.
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E.
Madeleine Mantock
Madeleine Mantock is a British actress known for her roles in genre television series, including prominent parts in action and supernatural dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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human ⓘ singer ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Stephen Sondheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-03-19 ⓘ |
| directed |
High Society (Old Vic production)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Merrily We Roll Along (Broadway revival) NERFINISHED ⓘ Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory production) NERFINISHED ⓘ Stepping Out (West End revival) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Friedman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music
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theatre ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Maria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Alfie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Toby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVoiceType | mezzo-soprano ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Maria Friedman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | interpretations of Stephen Sondheim’s work ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Little Night Music
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blues in the Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat NERFINISHED ⓘ Lady in the Dark NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria Friedman by Special Arrangement NERFINISHED ⓘ Merrily We Roll Along NERFINISHED ⓘ Passion NERFINISHED ⓘ Ragtime NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunday in the Park with George NERFINISHED ⓘ The Woman in White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musical theatre actress
ⓘ
singer ⓘ stage actress ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Broadway theatre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West End theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Swiss Cottage, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Sonia Friedman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | London, England ⓘ |
| sibling | Sonia Friedman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Adrian Der Gregorian 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: Maria Friedman Description of subject: Maria Friedman is a British actress and singer renowned for her acclaimed performances in West End and Broadway musicals, particularly in the works of Stephen Sondheim.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.