Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Dragon Seed"
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Dragon Seed" is an Oscar nomination recognizing Aline MacMahon’s performance in the 1944 wartime drama film "Dragon Seed."
All labels observed (1)
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| Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Dragon Seed" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13090076 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Dragon Seed" Context triple: [Aline MacMahon, awardNominationForWork, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Dragon Seed"]
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A.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Sundowners
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Sundowners is the Oscar nomination Glynis Johns received for her acclaimed supporting role in the 1960 film "The Sundowners."
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B.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Come Back, Little Sheba
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Come Back, Little Sheba" is the Oscar nomination recognizing Terry Moore’s acclaimed supporting performance in the 1952 film adaptation of the stage play.
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C.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "The Egg and I"
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "The Egg and I" is the Oscar nomination Marjorie Main received for her comedic portrayal of Ma Kettle in the 1947 film "The Egg and I."
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D.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "None But the Lonely Heart"
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "None But the Lonely Heart" is the Oscar won by legendary American stage and screen actress Ethel Barrymore for her acclaimed supporting performance in the 1944 film "None But the Lonely Heart."
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E.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for “In Old Chicago”
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for “In Old Chicago” is the Oscar given for the standout supporting performance by an actress in the 1937 historical drama film "In Old Chicago."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Dragon Seed" Target entity description: The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Dragon Seed" is an Oscar nomination recognizing Aline MacMahon’s performance in the 1944 wartime drama film "Dragon Seed."
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A.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Sundowners
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Sundowners is the Oscar nomination Glynis Johns received for her acclaimed supporting role in the 1960 film "The Sundowners."
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B.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Come Back, Little Sheba
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Come Back, Little Sheba" is the Oscar nomination recognizing Terry Moore’s acclaimed supporting performance in the 1952 film adaptation of the stage play.
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C.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "The Egg and I"
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "The Egg and I" is the Oscar nomination Marjorie Main received for her comedic portrayal of Ma Kettle in the 1947 film "The Egg and I."
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D.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "None But the Lonely Heart"
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "None But the Lonely Heart" is the Oscar won by legendary American stage and screen actress Ethel Barrymore for her acclaimed supporting performance in the 1944 film "None But the Lonely Heart."
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E.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for “In Old Chicago”
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for “In Old Chicago” is the Oscar given for the standout supporting performance by an actress in the 1937 historical drama film "In Old Chicago."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Academy Award nomination
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film award nomination ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Oscar nomination for Aline MacMahon for "Dragon Seed" ⓘ |
| associatedFilmStudio | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardCategory | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardType | supporting actress award nomination ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel "Dragon Seed" by Pearl S. Buck ⓘ |
| ceremonyYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| filmReleaseYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| genreOfFilm | wartime drama film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nominatedAt | Academy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedCharacterPortrayedByAlineMacMahon | Wu Lien’s wife (Ling Tan’s daughter-in-law) ⓘ |
| nominatedPerson | Aline MacMahon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedWork | Dragon Seed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | recognizing Aline MacMahon’s role in a World War II–era film ⓘ |
| partOfEvent | 17th Academy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentedBy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| recognizes |
Aline MacMahon’s performance as a supporting actress
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supporting acting performance by a female actor ⓘ |
| relatedAward | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Dragon Seed" (if any) 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: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Dragon Seed" Description of subject: The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Dragon Seed" is an Oscar nomination recognizing Aline MacMahon’s performance in the 1944 wartime drama film "Dragon Seed."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Aline MacMahon
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awardNominationForWork
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Dragon Seed"
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