Cynthia Murphy
E263406
Cynthia Murphy is a central maternal character in the musical "Dear Evan Hansen," known as the caring but emotionally strained mother of Connor and Zoe Murphy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cynthia Murphy canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2060731 — 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: Cynthia Murphy Context triple: [Dear Evan Hansen, featuresCharacter, Cynthia Murphy]
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A.
Judith Kilpatrick
Judith Kilpatrick is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kilpatrick.
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B.
Christine Collins
Christine Collins was a real-life Los Angeles mother whose 1928 fight against police corruption and search for her missing son became the basis for the film "Changeling."
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C.
Paula Kent Meehan
Paula Kent Meehan was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of the professional haircare company Redken.
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D.
Nancy Shevell
Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman and heiress best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to musician Paul McCartney.
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E.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick is an American Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Michigan and was the first African American woman elected to Congress from the state.
- 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: Cynthia Murphy Target entity description: Cynthia Murphy is a central maternal character in the musical "Dear Evan Hansen," known as the caring but emotionally strained mother of Connor and Zoe Murphy.
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A.
Judith Kilpatrick
Judith Kilpatrick is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kilpatrick.
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B.
Christine Collins
Christine Collins was a real-life Los Angeles mother whose 1928 fight against police corruption and search for her missing son became the basis for the film "Changeling."
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C.
Paula Kent Meehan
Paula Kent Meehan was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of the professional haircare company Redken.
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D.
Nancy Shevell
Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman and heiress best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to musician Paul McCartney.
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E.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick is an American Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Michigan and was the first African American woman elected to Congress from the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
stage musical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Dear Evan Hansen ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkType | stage musical ⓘ |
| characterType | maternal character ⓘ |
| child |
Connor Murphy
ⓘ
Zoe Murphy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdForWork | Dear Evan Hansen ⓘ |
| emotionalState |
caring
ⓘ
emotionally strained ⓘ |
| familyName | Murphy ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Dear Evan Hansen ⓘ |
| givenName | Cynthia ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Connor Murphy
ⓘ
Larry Murphy ⓘ Zoe Murphy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family relationships
ⓘ
grief ⓘ parent–child relationships ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | stage ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | mother ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Amy Adams
ⓘ
Jennifer Laura Thompson ⓘ Rachel Bay Jones ⓘ |
| portrayedInOriginalBroadwayCastBy | Jennifer Laura Thompson ⓘ |
| spouse | Larry Murphy ⓘ |
| stageWorkGenre | musical theatre ⓘ |
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: Cynthia Murphy Description of subject: Cynthia Murphy is a central maternal character in the musical "Dear Evan Hansen," known as the caring but emotionally strained mother of Connor and Zoe Murphy.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Requiem (Dear Evan Hansen song)