Patricia Neway
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Patricia Neway was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress best known for originating the role of the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of "The Sound of Music."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patricia Neway canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3169697 — 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: Patricia Neway Context triple: [Climb Ev'ry Mountain, notablePerformer, Patricia Neway]
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A.
Patricia Ward
Patricia Ward is best known as the widow of legendary American actor, dancer, and director Gene Kelly.
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B.
Patricia Wallace
Patricia Wallace is known as the wife of the late American broadcast journalist Mike Wallace, a longtime correspondent for CBS's "60 Minutes."
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C.
Patricia Strawn
Patricia Strawn is known as the wife of American film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr., a prominent figure in the Hollywood film industry.
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D.
Patricia Dane
Patricia Dane was an American film actress of the 1940s who appeared in several MGM productions and was briefly married to bandleader Tommy Dorsey.
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E.
Patricia Scott
Patricia Scott was the first wife of acclaimed film and theater director Mike Nichols.
- 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: Patricia Neway Target entity description: Patricia Neway was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress best known for originating the role of the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of "The Sound of Music."
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A.
Patricia Ward
Patricia Ward is best known as the widow of legendary American actor, dancer, and director Gene Kelly.
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B.
Patricia Wallace
Patricia Wallace is known as the wife of the late American broadcast journalist Mike Wallace, a longtime correspondent for CBS's "60 Minutes."
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C.
Patricia Strawn
Patricia Strawn is known as the wife of American film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr., a prominent figure in the Hollywood film industry.
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D.
Patricia Dane
Patricia Dane was an American film actress of the 1940s who appeared in several MGM productions and was briefly married to bandleader Tommy Dorsey.
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E.
Patricia Scott
Patricia Scott was the first wife of acclaimed film and theater director Mike Nichols.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American stage actor
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human ⓘ musical theatre actress ⓘ operatic soprano ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century musical theatre
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20th-century opera ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-09-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-01-24 ⓘ |
| familyName | Neway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
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opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Patricia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance |
English
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Italian ⓘ |
| name | Patricia Neway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | originating the role of the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music ⓘ |
| notableRole | Mother Abbess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Sound of Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
opera singer
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stage actress ⓘ |
| originatedRole | Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (original Broadway production) ⓘ |
| performedIn | The Sound of Music (original Broadway production) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Cornwall, Vermont, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | John Francis O'Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceType | soprano ⓘ |
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: Patricia Neway Description of subject: Patricia Neway was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress best known for originating the role of the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of "The Sound of Music."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.