Glynis Margaret Payne Johns
E498169
Glynis Margaret Payne Johns was a British actress, singer, and dancer best known for her distinctive husky voice and roles in films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Court Jester."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glynis Margaret Payne Johns canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4983517 — 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: Glynis Margaret Payne Johns Context triple: [Glynis Johns, fullName, Glynis Margaret Payne Johns]
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A.
Elizabeth Johns Neall
Elizabeth Johns Neall was a 19th-century American Quaker abolitionist and women's rights advocate active in reform movements alongside her husband, journalist and antislavery leader Sydney Howard Gay.
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B.
Frances Penney
Frances Penney was the wife of Canadian physician and humanitarian Norman Bethune, accompanying parts of his medical and political journey in the early 20th century.
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C.
Helen Morris
Helen Morris is an American book editor and the longtime wife of acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese.
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D.
Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd
Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd is the daughter of famed silent film comedian and actor Harold Lloyd.
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E.
Pauline Sutcliffe
Pauline Sutcliffe is a British writer and psychotherapist best known for her work preserving and documenting the legacy of her brother, early Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe.
- 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: Glynis Margaret Payne Johns Target entity description: Glynis Margaret Payne Johns was a British actress, singer, and dancer best known for her distinctive husky voice and roles in films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Court Jester."
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A.
Elizabeth Johns Neall
Elizabeth Johns Neall was a 19th-century American Quaker abolitionist and women's rights advocate active in reform movements alongside her husband, journalist and antislavery leader Sydney Howard Gay.
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B.
Frances Penney
Frances Penney was the wife of Canadian physician and humanitarian Norman Bethune, accompanying parts of his medical and political journey in the early 20th century.
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C.
Helen Morris
Helen Morris is an American book editor and the longtime wife of acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese.
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D.
Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd
Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd is the daughter of famed silent film comedian and actor Harold Lloyd.
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E.
Pauline Sutcliffe
Pauline Sutcliffe is a British writer and psychotherapist best known for her work preserving and documenting the legacy of her brother, early Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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dancer ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Welsh people ⓘ |
| familyName | Johns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Glynis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Glynis Margaret Payne Johns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Maid Jean in The Court Jester
NERFINISHED
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Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSongPerformance | Send in the Clowns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
49th Parallel
NERFINISHED
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A Little Night Music NERFINISHED ⓘ A Little Night Music (Broadway production) NERFINISHED ⓘ An Ideal Husband NERFINISHED ⓘ Lock Up Your Daughters! NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Poppins NERFINISHED ⓘ Miranda NERFINISHED ⓘ No Highway in the Sky NERFINISHED ⓘ Perfect Strangers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beachcomber NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cabinet of Caligari NERFINISHED ⓘ The Card NERFINISHED ⓘ The Card (1952 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chapman Report NERFINISHED ⓘ The Court Jester NERFINISHED ⓘ The Glynis Johns Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Magic Box NERFINISHED ⓘ The Magic Box (1951 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Promoter NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ref NERFINISHED ⓘ The Spider and the Fly NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sundowners NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sword and the Rose NERFINISHED ⓘ The Weak and the Wicked NERFINISHED ⓘ The Weak and the Wicked (1954 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Under Milk Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ Vacation from Marriage NERFINISHED ⓘ While You Were Sleeping NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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dancer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| voiceType | husky voice ⓘ |
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: Glynis Margaret Payne Johns Description of subject: Glynis Margaret Payne Johns was a British actress, singer, and dancer best known for her distinctive husky voice and roles in films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Court Jester."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.