Marlee Matlin
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Marlee Matlin is an American actress and activist who, as a deaf performer, became the youngest winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in "Children of a Lesser God."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marlee Matlin canonical | 7 |
| Marlee Beth Matlin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T914016 — 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: Marlee Matlin Context triple: [Academy Award for Best Actress, notableYoungWinner, Marlee Matlin]
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A.
Linda Hunt
Linda Hunt is an American actress known for her Academy Award–winning role in "The Year of Living Dangerously" and for playing Hetty Lange on the television series "NCIS: Los Angeles."
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B.
Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt is an American actress and filmmaker best known for her Emmy-winning role on the sitcom "Mad About You" and her Academy Award-winning performance in the film "As Good as It Gets."
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C.
Melissa Leo
Melissa Leo is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful character roles in film and television, including her Oscar-winning performance in "The Fighter."
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D.
Geena Davis
Geena Davis is an American actress and producer known for her roles in films such as "Thelma & Louise," "A League of Their Own," and "The Fly," as well as for her advocacy for gender equality in media.
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E.
Glenn Close
Glenn Close is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film, television, and theater, with multiple Academy Award and Tony Award nominations and wins.
- 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: Marlee Matlin Target entity description: Marlee Matlin is an American actress and activist who, as a deaf performer, became the youngest winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in "Children of a Lesser God."
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A.
Linda Hunt
Linda Hunt is an American actress known for her Academy Award–winning role in "The Year of Living Dangerously" and for playing Hetty Lange on the television series "NCIS: Los Angeles."
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B.
Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt is an American actress and filmmaker best known for her Emmy-winning role on the sitcom "Mad About You" and her Academy Award-winning performance in the film "As Good as It Gets."
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C.
Melissa Leo
Melissa Leo is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful character roles in film and television, including her Oscar-winning performance in "The Fighter."
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D.
Geena Davis
Geena Davis is an American actress and producer known for her roles in films such as "Thelma & Louise," "A League of Their Own," and "The Fly," as well as for her advocacy for gender equality in media.
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E.
Glenn Close
Glenn Close is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film, television, and theater, with multiple Academy Award and Tony Award nominations and wins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Marlee Matlin Description of subject: Marlee Matlin is an American actress and activist who, as a deaf performer, became the youngest winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in "Children of a Lesser God."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
CODA
this entity surface form:
Marlee Beth Matlin