Mary McDonnell
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Mary McDonnell is an American actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including her work in dramas and science fiction such as "Dances with Wolves" and "Battlestar Galactica."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary McDonnell canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1041906 — 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 McDonnell Context triple: [The Closer, starring, Mary McDonnell]
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A.
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.
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B.
Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander is an acclaimed American actress and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, known for her extensive work in film, television, and theater.
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C.
Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film, television, and theater, and for winning multiple Academy Awards and Emmy Awards over her decades-long career.
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D.
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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E.
Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including multiple award-winning supporting roles.
- 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 McDonnell Target entity description: Mary McDonnell is an American actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including her work in dramas and science fiction such as "Dances with Wolves" and "Battlestar Galactica."
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A.
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.
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B.
Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander is an acclaimed American actress and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, known for her extensive work in film, television, and theater.
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C.
Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film, television, and theater, and for winning multiple Academy Awards and Emmy Awards over her decades-long career.
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D.
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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E.
Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including multiple award-winning supporting roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 McDonnell Description of subject: Mary McDonnell is an American actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including her work in dramas and science fiction such as "Dances with Wolves" and "Battlestar Galactica."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Fall of the House of Usher (TV series)