Madeline Ashton
E244061
Madeline Ashton is a vain, aging Hollywood actress whose obsession with youth and beauty leads her to drink a magical potion granting eternal life in the dark comedy film "Death Becomes Her."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madeline Ashton canonical | 8 |
| Madeline Ashton Menville | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1637481 — 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: Madeline Ashton Context triple: [Death Becomes Her, character, Madeline Ashton]
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A.
Madeline Stavely
Madeline Stavely is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," around whom much of the story’s emotional and social drama revolves.
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B.
Molly Stark
Molly Stark was the wife of American Revolutionary War General John Stark, remembered in part through his famous battle cry invoking her name at the Battle of Bennington.
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C.
Madeleine Carroll
Madeleine Carroll was a British actress best known for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "The 39 Steps" (1935), which made her one of the first major British female stars in Hollywood.
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D.
Madeline Neroni
Madeline Neroni is a captivating, manipulative, and physically disabled beauty in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known for using her charm and wit to influence the social and romantic intrigues around her.
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E.
Rebecca Prescott
Rebecca Prescott was the second wife of American Founding Father Roger Sherman and the mother of several of his children, connected to early U.S. political history through her marriage.
- 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: Madeline Ashton Target entity description: Madeline Ashton is a vain, aging Hollywood actress whose obsession with youth and beauty leads her to drink a magical potion granting eternal life in the dark comedy film "Death Becomes Her."
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A.
Madeline Stavely
Madeline Stavely is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," around whom much of the story’s emotional and social drama revolves.
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B.
Molly Stark
Molly Stark was the wife of American Revolutionary War General John Stark, remembered in part through his famous battle cry invoking her name at the Battle of Bennington.
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C.
Madeleine Carroll
Madeleine Carroll was a British actress best known for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "The 39 Steps" (1935), which made her one of the first major British female stars in Hollywood.
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D.
Madeline Neroni
Madeline Neroni is a captivating, manipulative, and physically disabled beauty in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known for using her charm and wit to influence the social and romantic intrigues around her.
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E.
Rebecca Prescott
Rebecca Prescott was the second wife of American Founding Father Roger Sherman and the mother of several of his children, connected to early U.S. political history through her marriage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Death Becomes Her ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
black comedy
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fantasy comedy ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Lisel Von Rhuman ⓘ |
| bodyState | undead ⓘ |
| cannot | die naturally ⓘ |
| conflictType | love triangle with Ernest Menville and Helen Sharp ⓘ |
| createdBy | Robert Zemeckis ⓘ |
| createdFor | Death Becomes Her ⓘ |
| drinks | magic potion ⓘ |
| enemy | Helen Sharp ⓘ |
| filmCharacterType | protagonist ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Death Becomes Her
ⓘ
surface form:
Death Becomes Her (1992 film)
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| genreOfWork | dark comedy film ⓘ |
| grantedProperty |
ageless appearance
ⓘ
eternal life ⓘ |
| hairColor | red ⓘ |
| hasFullName |
Madeline Ashton
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Madeline Ashton Menville
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| hasTrait |
aging
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narcissistic ⓘ obsessed with beauty ⓘ obsessed with youth ⓘ vain ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
body repaired by Ernest Menville
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falls down stairs and breaks neck ⓘ |
| notableQuoteLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableScene | confrontation with Helen Sharp using shovels ⓘ |
| obtains | potion of eternal youth ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Meryl Streep ⓘ |
| relationshipStatus | married to Ernest Menville ⓘ |
| residence | Hollywood ⓘ |
| romanticRival | Helen Sharp ⓘ |
| setIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| spouse | Ernest Menville ⓘ |
| suffersFrom | physical decay ⓘ |
| themeEmbodies |
consequences of immortality
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obsession with eternal youth ⓘ vanity and narcissism ⓘ |
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: Madeline Ashton Description of subject: Madeline Ashton is a vain, aging Hollywood actress whose obsession with youth and beauty leads her to drink a magical potion granting eternal life in the dark comedy film "Death Becomes Her."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Madeline Ashton Menville