Edmund MacDonald
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Edmund MacDonald was an American character actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his supporting roles in crime, mystery, and adventure films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edmund MacDonald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12165373 — 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: Edmund MacDonald Context triple: [The Ghost Ship, starredActor, Edmund MacDonald]
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A.
Reginald S. Macdonald
Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
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B.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
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C.
Edwin Broun
Edwin Broun Fred was an American bacteriologist and academic who served as president of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Charles MacDonald
Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
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E.
Charles MacDonald
Charles MacDonald is a Canadian municipal politician who served as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
- 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: Edmund MacDonald Target entity description: Edmund MacDonald was an American character actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his supporting roles in crime, mystery, and adventure films.
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A.
Reginald S. Macdonald
Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
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B.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
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C.
Edwin Broun
Edwin Broun Fred was an American bacteriologist and academic who served as president of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Charles MacDonald
Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
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E.
Charles MacDonald
Charles MacDonald is a Canadian municipal politician who served as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1930s American cinema
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1940s American cinema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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crime film ⓘ mystery film ⓘ |
| hasRoleType | supporting actor ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
supporting roles in adventure films
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supporting roles in crime films ⓘ supporting roles in mystery films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Edmund MacDonald Description of subject: Edmund MacDonald was an American character actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his supporting roles in crime, mystery, and adventure films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.