Madge Evans
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Madge Evans was an American stage and film actress of the early 20th century, known for her work in both silent and sound films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madge Evans canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8607149 — 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: Madge Evans Context triple: [Hallelujah, I’m a Bum, starring, Madge Evans]
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A.
Madge Sinclair
Madge Sinclair was a Jamaican-born actress best known for her commanding supporting roles in film and television, including notable performances in works like "Roots" and "The Lion King."
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B.
Gladys Brockwell
Gladys Brockwell was an American stage and silent film actress known for her intense dramatic roles during the early 20th century.
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C.
Marguerite Roberts
Marguerite Roberts was a prominent American screenwriter known for her sharp dialogue and work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s, including the classic Western "True Grit."
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D.
Maude Herbert
Maude Herbert was the wife of English composer Hubert Parry, associated with the cultural and musical circles of late 19th-century Britain.
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E.
Alice Faye
Alice Faye was an American actress and singer best known as a 1930s–1940s Hollywood musical star at 20th Century Fox.
- 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: Madge Evans Target entity description: Madge Evans was an American stage and film actress of the early 20th century, known for her work in both silent and sound films.
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A.
Madge Sinclair
Madge Sinclair was a Jamaican-born actress best known for her commanding supporting roles in film and television, including notable performances in works like "Roots" and "The Lion King."
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B.
Gladys Brockwell
Gladys Brockwell was an American stage and silent film actress known for her intense dramatic roles during the early 20th century.
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C.
Marguerite Roberts
Marguerite Roberts was a prominent American screenwriter known for her sharp dialogue and work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s, including the classic Western "True Grit."
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D.
Maude Herbert
Maude Herbert was the wife of English composer Hubert Parry, associated with the cultural and musical circles of late 19th-century Britain.
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E.
Alice Faye
Alice Faye was an American actress and singer best known as a 1930s–1940s Hollywood musical star at 20th Century Fox.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
child actor ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1940s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1914 ⓘ |
| birthName | Margherita Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oakland NERFINISHED ⓘ Oakland Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| childModelStartAge | 2 ⓘ |
| childStageDebutAge | 6 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfBirth | 1909-07-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1981-04-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1939 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
romantic film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
radio ⓘ stage ⓘ |
| name | Madge Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American cinema of the 1930s
ⓘ
transitioning from silent to sound films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beauty for Sale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Copperfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Dinner at Eight NERFINISHED ⓘ Hell Below NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennies from Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ The Age of Innocence NERFINISHED ⓘ The Greeks Had a Word for Them NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mayor of Hell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| performedOn | Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oakland NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Sidney Kingsley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
silent film
ⓘ
sound film ⓘ |
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: Madge Evans Description of subject: Madge Evans was an American stage and film actress of the early 20th century, known for her work in both silent and sound films.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.