Marcia Karen Wallace
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Marcia Karen Wallace was an American actress and comedian best known for voicing Edna Krabappel on the animated television series "The Simpsons."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcia Karen Wallace canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12970877 — 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: Marcia Karen Wallace Context triple: [Marcia Wallace, fullName, Marcia Karen Wallace]
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A.
Marcia Warren
Marcia Warren is an English actress known for her extensive work in television, film, and theatre, often in comedic and character roles.
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B.
Marcia Rieke
Marcia Rieke is an American astronomer renowned for her leadership in infrared instrumentation and her key role in developing the James Webb Space Telescope.
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C.
Pamela Wallace
Pamela Wallace is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award–winning film "Witness."
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D.
Marcia Manon
Marcia Manon was a silent film actress active in the 1910s and 1920s, known for her supporting roles in American dramas and melodramas.
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E.
Marcia Gresham
Marcia Gresham is a British casting director best known as the mother of actor Daniel Radcliffe.
- 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: Marcia Karen Wallace Target entity description: Marcia Karen Wallace was an American actress and comedian best known for voicing Edna Krabappel on the animated television series "The Simpsons."
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A.
Marcia Warren
Marcia Warren is an English actress known for her extensive work in television, film, and theatre, often in comedic and character roles.
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B.
Marcia Rieke
Marcia Rieke is an American astronomer renowned for her leadership in infrared instrumentation and her key role in developing the James Webb Space Telescope.
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C.
Pamela Wallace
Pamela Wallace is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award–winning film "Witness."
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D.
Marcia Manon
Marcia Manon was a silent film actress active in the 1910s and 1920s, known for her supporting roles in American dramas and melodramas.
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E.
Marcia Gresham
Marcia Gresham is a British casting director best known as the mother of actor Daniel Radcliffe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ human ⓘ voice actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1942-11-01 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
complications from pneumonia
ⓘ
pneumonia ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Carol Kester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2013-10-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Parsons College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Marcia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
playing Carol Kester on The Bob Newhart Show
ⓘ
voicing Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons ⓘ |
| medium |
television
ⓘ
voice acting ⓘ |
| name |
Marcia Karen Wallace
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marcia Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ALF
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Full House NERFINISHED ⓘ Murphy Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bob Newhart Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Brady Bunch NERFINISHED ⓘ The Simpsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 1 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Creston, Iowa, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Dennis Hawley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionSeries |
The Bob Newhart Show
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Simpsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceRole | Edna Krabappel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1960s–2013 ⓘ |
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: Marcia Karen Wallace Description of subject: Marcia Karen Wallace was an American actress and comedian best known for voicing Edna Krabappel on the animated television series "The Simpsons."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.