Belinda McDonald
E395013
Belinda McDonald is the deaf-mute young woman who is the central, sympathetic protagonist of the drama "Johnny Belinda."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Belinda McDonald canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3803960 — 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: Belinda McDonald Context triple: [Johnny Belinda, character, Belinda McDonald]
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A.
Belinda Boyd
Belinda Boyd, later known as Khalilah Ali, is an American woman best known as the second wife of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and for her involvement in his public and religious life during their marriage.
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B.
Melba Phillips
Melba Phillips was an influential American physicist and educator known for her work in theoretical physics and for coauthoring the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear physics.
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C.
Janelle McDonald
Janelle McDonald is an American gymnastics coach best known for leading the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics program.
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D.
Tracey Fairaway
Tracey Fairaway is an American actress best known for her role in the romantic comedy-drama film "Enough Said."
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E.
Susie McDonald
Susie McDonald was one of the key plaintiffs in the landmark civil rights case Browder v. Gayle, which led to the desegregation of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 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: Belinda McDonald Target entity description: Belinda McDonald is the deaf-mute young woman who is the central, sympathetic protagonist of the drama "Johnny Belinda."
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A.
Belinda Boyd
Belinda Boyd, later known as Khalilah Ali, is an American woman best known as the second wife of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and for her involvement in his public and religious life during their marriage.
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B.
Melba Phillips
Melba Phillips was an influential American physicist and educator known for her work in theoretical physics and for coauthoring the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear physics.
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C.
Janelle McDonald
Janelle McDonald is an American gymnastics coach best known for leading the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics program.
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D.
Tracey Fairaway
Tracey Fairaway is an American actress best known for her role in the romantic comedy-drama film "Enough Said."
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E.
Susie McDonald
Susie McDonald was one of the key plaintiffs in the landmark civil rights case Browder v. Gayle, which led to the desegregation of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ theatre character ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Johnny Belinda
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surface form:
Johnny Belinda (1948 film)
|
| appearsIn | Johnny Belinda ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Johnny Belinda (play) ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
deaf
ⓘ
mute ⓘ sympathetic ⓘ |
| communicationMethod |
gestures
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | Canada ⓘ |
| createdBy | Elmer Harris ⓘ |
| familyName | McDonald ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Johnny Belinda ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Johnny Belinda (play)
ⓘ
surface form:
Johnny Belinda (stage play)
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Belinda ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | victim of sexual assault ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
disability
ⓘ
justice ⓘ prejudice ⓘ |
| occupationInStory | farm girl ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Jane Wyman
ⓘ
other stage actresses (various productions) ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of Johnny Belinda ⓘ |
| settingOfStory | Cape Breton Island ⓘ |
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: Belinda McDonald Description of subject: Belinda McDonald is the deaf-mute young woman who is the central, sympathetic protagonist of the drama "Johnny Belinda."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.