Edwin Fitzgerald
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Edwin Fitzgerald, better known by his stage name Eddie Foy, was a prominent American vaudeville and stage comedian of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edwin Fitzgerald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11014121 — 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: Edwin Fitzgerald Context triple: [Eddie Foy, birthName, Edwin Fitzgerald]
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A.
Delmar O’Donnell
Delmar O’Donnell is a naive but good-hearted escaped convict and one of the three central companions in the Coen brothers’ film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
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B.
Frederick Fitzgerald
Frederick Fitzgerald was the son of Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, a member of the prominent Fitzgerald family of Boston with ties to early 20th-century American politics.
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C.
Henry Joy McCracken
Henry Joy McCracken was an Irish Presbyterian revolutionary and founding member of the Society of United Irishmen who played a key role in organizing the 1798 uprising in County Antrim.
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D.
John Fagan
John Fagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
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E.
John O'Brien
John O'Brien is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2004 film adaptation of the classic television series "Starsky & Hutch."
- 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: Edwin Fitzgerald Target entity description: Edwin Fitzgerald, better known by his stage name Eddie Foy, was a prominent American vaudeville and stage comedian of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Delmar O’Donnell
Delmar O’Donnell is a naive but good-hearted escaped convict and one of the three central companions in the Coen brothers’ film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
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B.
Frederick Fitzgerald
Frederick Fitzgerald was the son of Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, a member of the prominent Fitzgerald family of Boston with ties to early 20th-century American politics.
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C.
Henry Joy McCracken
Henry Joy McCracken was an Irish Presbyterian revolutionary and founding member of the Society of United Irishmen who played a key role in organizing the 1798 uprising in County Antrim.
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D.
John Fagan
John Fagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
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E.
John O'Brien
John O'Brien is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2004 film adaptation of the classic television series "Starsky & Hutch."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American comedian
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human ⓘ stage comedian ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndTime | early 20th century ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartTime | late 19th century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Eddie Foy Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
NERFINISHED
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New Rochelle NERFINISHED ⓘ New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1856-03-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1928-02-16 ⓘ |
| era |
Gilded Age
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Progressive Era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Edwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Bryan Foy
NERFINISHED
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Charley Foy NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie Foy Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Irving Foy NERFINISHED ⓘ Madeline Foy NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Foy NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Foy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| name | Edwin Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | survived the Iroquois Theatre fire ⓘ |
| notableFamily | The Seven Little Foys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
stage comedy
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vaudeville comedy ⓘ |
| notableWork | Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ stage performer ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| performingArtsDiscipline |
theatre
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vaudeville ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Kansas City
NERFINISHED
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Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stageName | Eddie Foy 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: Edwin Fitzgerald Description of subject: Edwin Fitzgerald, better known by his stage name Eddie Foy, was a prominent American vaudeville and stage comedian of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.