Audra McDonald
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Audra McDonald is a highly acclaimed American actress and singer, renowned for her record-breaking number of Tony Awards and powerful performances on Broadway, television, and film.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Audra McDonald canonical | 15 |
| Audra Ann McDonald | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1226043 — 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: Audra McDonald Context triple: [Respect (2021 film), castMember, Audra McDonald]
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A.
Viola Davis
Viola Davis is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances across film, television, and theater, and for breaking barriers as one of the most awarded Black actresses in Hollywood history.
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B.
Gwen Verdon
Gwen Verdon was an acclaimed American actress and dancer best known for her Tony Award–winning performances in Broadway musicals such as "Damn Yankees" and "Chicago."
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C.
Regina King
Regina King is an acclaimed American actress and director known for her award-winning performances in film and television, including roles in "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Watchmen," and "Jerry Maguire."
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D.
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson is an American singer and actress renowned for her powerful vocals, Academy Award–winning performance in "Dreamgirls," and success on both stage and screen.
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E.
Danielle Brooks
Danielle Brooks is an American actress and singer best known for her acclaimed role as Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.
- 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: Audra McDonald Target entity description: Audra McDonald is a highly acclaimed American actress and singer, renowned for her record-breaking number of Tony Awards and powerful performances on Broadway, television, and film.
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A.
Viola Davis
Viola Davis is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances across film, television, and theater, and for breaking barriers as one of the most awarded Black actresses in Hollywood history.
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B.
Gwen Verdon
Gwen Verdon was an acclaimed American actress and dancer best known for her Tony Award–winning performances in Broadway musicals such as "Damn Yankees" and "Chicago."
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C.
Regina King
Regina King is an acclaimed American actress and director known for her award-winning performances in film and television, including roles in "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Watchmen," and "Jerry Maguire."
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D.
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson is an American singer and actress renowned for her powerful vocals, Academy Award–winning performance in "Dreamgirls," and success on both stage and screen.
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E.
Danielle Brooks
Danielle Brooks is an American actress and singer best known for her acclaimed role as Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Audra McDonald Description of subject: Audra McDonald is a highly acclaimed American actress and singer, renowned for her record-breaking number of Tony Awards and powerful performances on Broadway, television, and film.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Respect (2021 film)
subject surface form:
Rustin (2023 film)
this entity surface form:
Audra Ann McDonald
subject surface form:
Origin (2023 film)