Mercedes McCambridge
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Mercedes McCambridge was an American actress renowned for her intense, often villainous roles in film and radio, and for providing the demonic voice in "The Exorcist."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mercedes McCambridge canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5042090 — 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: Mercedes McCambridge Context triple: [Johnny Guitar, castMember, Mercedes McCambridge]
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A.
Nancy Richardson
Nancy Richardson is a film editor best known for her work on movies such as the biographical sports comedy-drama "Fighting with My Family."
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B.
Anne Gwynne
Anne Gwynne was a popular American film and television actress of the 1940s, often remembered as one of the earliest "scream queens" in horror cinema.
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C.
Linda Harrison
Linda Harrison is an American actress best known for her role as Nova in the original "Planet of the Apes" films.
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D.
Fay Bainter
Fay Bainter was an American stage and film actress, active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, who became one of the first performers to receive Academy Award nominations in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories in the same year.
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E.
Phyllis Thaxter
Phyllis Thaxter was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas and for playing Martha Kent in the 1978 film "Superman."
- 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: Mercedes McCambridge Target entity description: Mercedes McCambridge was an American actress renowned for her intense, often villainous roles in film and radio, and for providing the demonic voice in "The Exorcist."
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A.
Nancy Richardson
Nancy Richardson is a film editor best known for her work on movies such as the biographical sports comedy-drama "Fighting with My Family."
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B.
Anne Gwynne
Anne Gwynne was a popular American film and television actress of the 1940s, often remembered as one of the earliest "scream queens" in horror cinema.
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C.
Linda Harrison
Linda Harrison is an American actress best known for her role as Nova in the original "Planet of the Apes" films.
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D.
Fay Bainter
Fay Bainter was an American stage and film actress, active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, who became one of the first performers to receive Academy Award nominations in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories in the same year.
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E.
Phyllis Thaxter
Phyllis Thaxter was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas and for playing Martha Kent in the 1978 film "Superman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
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human ⓘ radio actress ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
NERFINISHED
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Golden Globe Award ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "All the King’s Men" ⓘ |
| birthName | Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cremated (ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1916-03-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-03-02 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | McCambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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horror film ⓘ western film ⓘ |
| givenName |
Carlotta
NERFINISHED
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Mercedes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
intense acting style
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providing the demonic voice in the film "The Exorcist" ⓘ villainous roles ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| name | Mercedes McCambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRadioWork | various dramatic radio programs in the 1930s and 1940s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All the King’s Men
NERFINISHED
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Giant NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Guitar NERFINISHED ⓘ The Exorcist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Joliet, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | La Jolla, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| role | voice of the demon Pazuzu in "The Exorcist" ⓘ |
| spouse |
Fletcher Markle
NERFINISHED
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William Fifield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1930s–1990s ⓘ |
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: Mercedes McCambridge Description of subject: Mercedes McCambridge was an American actress renowned for her intense, often villainous roles in film and radio, and for providing the demonic voice in "The Exorcist."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.