Madeleine Sherwood
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Madeleine Sherwood was a Canadian-American character actress best known for her work on stage and screen in the mid-20th century, including notable roles in Tennessee Williams adaptations and the TV series "The Flying Nun."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madeleine Hobe Sherwood | 1 |
| Madeleine Sherwood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7538481 — 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: Madeleine Sherwood Context triple: [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring, Madeleine Sherwood]
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A.
Elizabeth Maddern
Elizabeth Maddern was the first wife of American writer Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney), married to him before his rise to literary fame.
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B.
Madeleine Carroll
Madeleine Carroll was a British actress best known for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "The 39 Steps" (1935), which made her one of the first major British female stars in Hollywood.
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C.
Elizabeth Shewell
Elizabeth Shewell was the wife of Anglo-American painter Benjamin West and a member of a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in the 18th century.
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D.
Maud Gernon
Maud Gernon was the wife of American lawyer and suffragist Dudley Field Malone, known primarily in historical records through this marriage.
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E.
Anne Heywood
Anne Heywood is a British actress known for her film and television roles from the 1950s through the 1970s, often portraying strong, complex female characters.
- 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: Madeleine Sherwood Target entity description: Madeleine Sherwood was a Canadian-American character actress best known for her work on stage and screen in the mid-20th century, including notable roles in Tennessee Williams adaptations and the TV series "The Flying Nun."
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A.
Elizabeth Maddern
Elizabeth Maddern was the first wife of American writer Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney), married to him before his rise to literary fame.
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B.
Madeleine Carroll
Madeleine Carroll was a British actress best known for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "The 39 Steps" (1935), which made her one of the first major British female stars in Hollywood.
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C.
Elizabeth Shewell
Elizabeth Shewell was the wife of Anglo-American painter Benjamin West and a member of a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in the 18th century.
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D.
Maud Gernon
Maud Gernon was the wife of American lawyer and suffragist Dudley Field Malone, known primarily in historical records through this marriage.
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E.
Anne Heywood
Anne Heywood is a British actress known for her film and television roles from the 1950s through the 1970s, often portraying strong, complex female characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian-American
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| arrestedFor | civil rights protest in Alabama ⓘ |
| birthName | Madeleine Louise Hélène Thornton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Flying Nun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Tennessee Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-11-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-04-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French Canadian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Thornton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Madeleine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| imprisonedAt | Birmingham Jail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| memberOf | Actors Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Madeleine Sherwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sweet Bird of Youth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crucible NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flying Nun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Montreal, Quebec, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lac Cornu, Quebec, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | civil rights activism ⓘ |
| portrayed | Reverend Mother Placido NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pseudonym | Madeleine Sherwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| residence |
New York City
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Quebec, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Robert Sherwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)
NERFINISHED
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (stage play) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweet Bird of Youth (1962 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweet Bird of Youth (stage play) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crucible (stage play) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flying Nun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Madeleine Sherwood Description of subject: Madeleine Sherwood was a Canadian-American character actress best known for her work on stage and screen in the mid-20th century, including notable roles in Tennessee Williams adaptations and the TV series "The Flying Nun."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Madeleine Hobe Sherwood