Elaine May
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Elaine May is an American comedian, writer, director, and actress, renowned as a pioneer of improvisational comedy and for her influential work in film and theater.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elaine May canonical | 13 |
| Elaine May as Gladys Green | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2297813 — 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: Elaine May Context triple: [Mike Nichols, collaboratedWith, Elaine May]
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A.
Priscilla Lane
Priscilla Lane was an American film actress best known as one of the Lane Sisters and for her roles in popular 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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B.
Paul Feigay
Paul Feigay is a theatrical producer known for his work on the classic Broadway musical "On the Town."
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C.
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron was an acclaimed American journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and filmmaker best known for writing and directing iconic romantic comedies such as "When Harry Met Sally..." and "Sleepless in Seattle."
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D.
Jane Leeves
Jane Leeves is an English actress best known for her role as Daphne Moon on the television sitcom "Frasier."
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E.
Buck Henry
Buck Henry was an American screenwriter, actor, and director best known for co-writing the landmark film "The Graduate" and co-creating the TV series "Get Smart."
- 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: Elaine May Target entity description: Elaine May is an American comedian, writer, director, and actress, renowned as a pioneer of improvisational comedy and for her influential work in film and theater.
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A.
Priscilla Lane
Priscilla Lane was an American film actress best known as one of the Lane Sisters and for her roles in popular 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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B.
Paul Feigay
Paul Feigay is a theatrical producer known for his work on the classic Broadway musical "On the Town."
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C.
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron was an acclaimed American journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and filmmaker best known for writing and directing iconic romantic comedies such as "When Harry Met Sally..." and "Sleepless in Seattle."
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D.
Jane Leeves
Jane Leeves is an English actress best known for her role as Daphne Moon on the television sitcom "Frasier."
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E.
Buck Henry
Buck Henry was an American screenwriter, actor, and director best known for co-writing the landmark film "The Graduate" and co-creating the TV series "Get Smart."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actress ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actress ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century American cinema
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21st-century American theatre ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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Honorary Academy Award ⓘ Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | May ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy
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film direction ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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satire ⓘ |
| givenName | Elaine ⓘ |
| influenced | American improvisational comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Mike Nichols and Elaine May ⓘ |
| movement | improvisational theatre ⓘ |
| name | Elaine May self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential work in American film
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influential work in American theatre ⓘ pioneering improvisational comedy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A New Leaf
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Adult Entertainment ⓘ George Is Dead ⓘ Heaven Can Wait ⓘ Inanna ⓘ
surface form:
Ishtar
Mikey and Nicky ⓘ Primary Colors ⓘ Relatively Speaking ⓘ The Birdcage ⓘ The Heartbreak Kid ⓘ The Waverly Gallery ⓘ Tootsie ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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comedian ⓘ film director ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Elaine May Description of subject: Elaine May is an American comedian, writer, director, and actress, renowned as a pioneer of improvisational comedy and for her influential work in film and theater.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Elaine May as Gladys Green
subject surface form:
The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)
subject surface form:
Albert Goldman (The Birdcage)