Małka Opiekun
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Małka Opiekun, better known as Molly Picon, was a celebrated American actress and singer famed for her work in Yiddish theater and film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Małka Opiekun canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11317783 — 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: Małka Opiekun Context triple: [Molly Picon, birthName, Małka Opiekun]
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A.
Milcza
Milcza is a village in southeastern Poland located within the administrative district of Gmina Rymanów in the Subcarpathian region.
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B.
Agnieszka
Agnieszka is a Polish feminine given name, commonly regarded as the Polish form of Agnes.
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C.
Michalina
Michalina is a feminine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Polish-speaking countries.
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D.
Sylwia
Sylwia is a feminine given name, primarily used in Poland, that is a cognate of the name Sylvia.
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E.
Marysieńka
Marysieńka is the affectionate Polish nickname of Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d’Arquien, the French-born queen consort of King John III Sobieski of Poland.
- 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: Małka Opiekun Target entity description: Małka Opiekun, better known as Molly Picon, was a celebrated American actress and singer famed for her work in Yiddish theater and film.
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A.
Milcza
Milcza is a village in southeastern Poland located within the administrative district of Gmina Rymanów in the Subcarpathian region.
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B.
Agnieszka
Agnieszka is a Polish feminine given name, commonly regarded as the Polish form of Agnes.
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C.
Michalina
Michalina is a feminine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Polish-speaking countries.
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D.
Sylwia
Sylwia is a feminine given name, primarily used in Poland, that is a cognate of the name Sylvia.
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E.
Marysieńka
Marysieńka is the affectionate Polish nickname of Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d’Arquien, the French-born queen consort of King John III Sobieski of Poland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yiddish theatre actor
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actress ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ singer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Molly Picon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Opiekun ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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music ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
Yiddish theatre
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comedy ⓘ musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Małka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage | Ashkenazi Jewish culture ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
Yiddish popular song
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comic performance ⓘ |
| influenced | later generations of Jewish-American performers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Yiddish ⓘ |
| movement | Yiddish theatre movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameInEnglish | Molly Picon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
bridged Yiddish theatre and mainstream American stage and film
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popularized Yiddish culture in American entertainment ⓘ |
| notableFor |
work in Yiddish film
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work in Yiddish theatre ⓘ |
| notableRole | portrayal of lively young Jewish heroines in Yiddish films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Car 54, Where Are You? (TV appearance)
NERFINISHED
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Come Blow Your Horn (film appearance) NERFINISHED ⓘ Fiddler on the Roof (stage performances) NERFINISHED ⓘ For Pete’s Sake (film appearance) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mamele NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cannonball Run (film appearance) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Facts of Life (TV appearance) NERFINISHED ⓘ Yankl der shmid NERFINISHED ⓘ Yiddish musical comedies ⓘ Yiddish theatre revues ⓘ Yiddle with His Fiddle NERFINISHED ⓘ recordings of Yiddish songs ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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comedian ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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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: Małka Opiekun Description of subject: Małka Opiekun, better known as Molly Picon, was a celebrated American actress and singer famed for her work in Yiddish theater and film.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.