Hattie McDaniel
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Academy Award winner
African-American actor
African-American singer
actress
comedian
film actress
human
radio actress
singer
television actress
Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer, and comedian best known as the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in "Gone with the Wind."
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379775 — 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: Hattie McDaniel Context triple: [Gone with the Wind, starring, Hattie McDaniel]
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Verna Fields
Verna Fields was an American film editor best known for her Oscar-winning work on the blockbuster thriller "Jaws" and her influential role in New Hollywood cinema.
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Frances Jones Dandridge
Frances Jones Dandridge was a Virginia colonial gentlewoman best known as the mother of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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C.
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
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D.
Leslie Uggams
Leslie Uggams is an American actress and singer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including her acclaimed performances in musical theater and dramatic roles.
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E.
Lillian Rogers Parks
Lillian Rogers Parks was a longtime White House maid and seamstress who became known for her memoirs detailing life behind the scenes of multiple presidential administrations.
- 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: Hattie McDaniel Target entity description: Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer, and comedian best known as the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in "Gone with the Wind."
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A.
Verna Fields
Verna Fields was an American film editor best known for her Oscar-winning work on the blockbuster thriller "Jaws" and her influential role in New Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Frances Jones Dandridge
Frances Jones Dandridge was a Virginia colonial gentlewoman best known as the mother of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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C.
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
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D.
Leslie Uggams
Leslie Uggams is an American actress and singer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including her acclaimed performances in musical theater and dramatic roles.
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E.
Lillian Rogers Parks
Lillian Rogers Parks was a longtime White House maid and seamstress who became known for her memoirs detailing life behind the scenes of multiple presidential administrations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Hattie McDaniel Description of subject: Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer, and comedian best known as the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in "Gone with the Wind."
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Etta McDaniel
this entity surface form:
Hattie McDaniel (cenotaph)
subject surface form:
Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, United States
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burialPlaceOf
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Hattie McDaniel
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subject surface form:
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
this entity surface form:
Hattie McDaniel (cenotaph)
subject surface form:
Mammy (Gone with the Wind)
subject surface form:
Mammy (Gone with the Wind)
this entity surface form:
Hattie McDaniel Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
this entity surface form:
Hattie McDaniel played Beulah on radio
this entity surface form:
Hattie McDaniel became the first African American Oscar winner