Madeleine
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"Madeleine" is a 1950 British crime drama film directed by David Lean and starring Ann Todd, based on the true story of a 19th-century Glasgow woman accused of poisoning her lover.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madeleine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12836126 — 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 Context triple: [Ann Todd, notableWork, Madeleine]
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A.
Madeleine
Madeleine is a feminine given name, commonly used in French and English, derived from Magdalene and often associated with literary and cultural figures.
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B.
Madeleine
Madeleine is a Paris Métro station in central Paris that serves as an interchange between several metro lines, including the automated Line 14.
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C.
Madelaine
Madelaine is a character in the Danish crime thriller film "The Salvation."
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D.
Françoise
Françoise is a central character in Éric Rohmer’s film "My Night at Maud’s," representing the devout, idealized young woman with whom the protagonist becomes romantically involved.
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E.
Françoise
Françoise is the given name of Louise de La Vallière, a 17th-century French noblewoman best known as a mistress of King Louis XIV.
- 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 Target entity description: "Madeleine" is a 1950 British crime drama film directed by David Lean and starring Ann Todd, based on the true story of a 19th-century Glasgow woman accused of poisoning her lover.
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A.
Madeleine
Madeleine is a feminine given name, commonly used in French and English, derived from Magdalene and often associated with literary and cultural figures.
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B.
Madeleine
Madeleine is a Paris Métro station in central Paris that serves as an interchange between several metro lines, including the automated Line 14.
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C.
Madelaine
Madelaine is a character in the Danish crime thriller film "The Salvation."
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D.
Françoise
Françoise is a central character in Éric Rohmer’s film "My Night at Maud’s," representing the devout, idealized young woman with whom the protagonist becomes romantically involved.
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E.
Françoise
Françoise is the given name of Louise de La Vallière, a 17th-century French noblewoman best known as a mistress of King Louis XIV.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British crime drama film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| basedOn | true story of a 19th-century Glasgow woman accused of poisoning her lover ⓘ |
| blackAndWhiteColor | black-and-white ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Guy Green ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | David Lean ⓘ |
| distributor | General Film Distributors ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jack Harris ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| leadActorCharacter |
Ann Todd as Madeleine Smith
ⓘ
linked to:
Ann Todd
|
| leadCharacterName | Madeleine Smith ⓘ |
| musicBy | Richard Addinsell ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | Madeleine Smith poisoning case ⓘ |
| producer |
David Lean
ⓘ
Stanley Haynes ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Cineguild
ⓘ
linked to:
Cineguild Productions
|
| releaseYear | 1950 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 114 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
David Lean
ⓘ
Nicholas Phipps ⓘ Stanley Haynes ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Glasgow ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| starring |
André Morell
ⓘ
Ann Todd ⓘ Barry Jones ⓘ Ivan Desny ⓘ Leslie Banks ⓘ Norman Wooland ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: "Madeleine" is a 1950 British crime drama film directed by David Lean and starring Ann Todd, based on the true story of a 19th-century Glasgow woman accused of poisoning her lover.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.