Dr. Madden
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Dr. Madden is the psychiatrist in the rock musical "Next to Normal," who treats Diana Goodman and represents the medical approach to her mental illness.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. Madden canonical | 1 |
| Dr. Madden / Dr. Fine in "Next to Normal" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2060811 — 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: Dr. Madden Context triple: [Next to Normal, featuresCharacter, Dr. Madden]
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A.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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B.
Meredith Black
Meredith Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose severe depression leads her husband to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an unconventional coping mechanism.
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C.
Robin Driscoll
Robin Driscoll is a British comedy writer and actor best known for co-writing and shaping the character and television series of Mr. Bean.
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D.
Eve Baird
Eve Baird is a tough, tactical former NATO counter-terrorism agent who becomes the guardian and leader of a group of magical scholars in the fantasy-adventure TV series "The Librarians."
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E.
Marn Davies
Marn Davies is a British screenwriter best known for co-writing Guy Ritchie films such as "The Gentlemen."
- 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: Dr. Madden Target entity description: Dr. Madden is the psychiatrist in the rock musical "Next to Normal," who treats Diana Goodman and represents the medical approach to her mental illness.
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A.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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B.
Meredith Black
Meredith Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose severe depression leads her husband to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an unconventional coping mechanism.
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C.
Robin Driscoll
Robin Driscoll is a British comedy writer and actor best known for co-writing and shaping the character and television series of Mr. Bean.
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D.
Eve Baird
Eve Baird is a tough, tactical former NATO counter-terrorism agent who becomes the guardian and leader of a group of magical scholars in the fantasy-adventure TV series "The Librarians."
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E.
Marn Davies
Marn Davies is a British screenwriter best known for co-writing Guy Ritchie films such as "The Gentlemen."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
stage character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Next to Normal ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
electroconvulsive therapy
ⓘ
medicalization of grief ⓘ mental illness ⓘ psychopharmacology ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | family-based coping approaches in Next to Normal ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdForWork | Next to Normal ⓘ |
| fieldOfExpertise |
mental health
ⓘ
psychiatry ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn |
musical theatre
ⓘ
rock musical ⓘ |
| hasPatient |
Diana Goodman
ⓘ
Goodman family ⓘ
surface form:
Goodman family (indirectly)
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | to explore ethical and emotional implications of psychiatric treatment ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | doctor treating protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | psychiatrist ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
Next to Normal
ⓘ
surface form:
Next to Normal universe
|
| portrays | medical approach to mental illness ⓘ |
| represents |
clinical treatment model for bipolar disorder
ⓘ
professional psychiatric perspective ⓘ |
| treats | Diana Goodman ⓘ |
| workTypeAppearsIn | rock musical ⓘ |
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: Dr. Madden Description of subject: Dr. Madden is the psychiatrist in the rock musical "Next to Normal," who treats Diana Goodman and represents the medical approach to her mental illness.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dr. Madden / Dr. Fine in "Next to Normal"