Ellen Egan
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Ellen Egan was the wife of American newspaperman and short story writer Damon Runyon, known for her connection to the celebrated chronicler of Broadway’s underworld.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ellen Egan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20870583 — 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: Ellen Egan Context triple: [Damon Runyon, spouse, Ellen Egan]
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A.
Lesley Egan
Lesley Egan was a British-born American mystery writer best known for her crime and detective novels, often published under multiple pseudonyms.
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B.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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C.
Diane Shaughnessy
Diane Shaughnessy is known as the wife of renowned American jazz drummer Ed Shaughnessy, who was a longtime member of Doc Severinsen’s band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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D.
Patricia Dane
Patricia Dane was an American film actress of the 1940s who appeared in several MGM productions and was briefly married to bandleader Tommy Dorsey.
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E.
Karin Kinsella
Karin Kinsella is the young daughter of Ray Kinsella in the film "Field of Dreams," whose innocent belief in the magical baseball field plays a key emotional role in the story.
- 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: Ellen Egan Target entity description: Ellen Egan was the wife of American newspaperman and short story writer Damon Runyon, known for her connection to the celebrated chronicler of Broadway’s underworld.
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A.
Lesley Egan
Lesley Egan was a British-born American mystery writer best known for her crime and detective novels, often published under multiple pseudonyms.
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B.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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C.
Diane Shaughnessy
Diane Shaughnessy is known as the wife of renowned American jazz drummer Ed Shaughnessy, who was a longtime member of Doc Severinsen’s band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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D.
Patricia Dane
Patricia Dane was an American film actress of the 1940s who appeared in several MGM productions and was briefly married to bandleader Tommy Dorsey.
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E.
Karin Kinsella
Karin Kinsella is the young daughter of Ray Kinsella in the film "Field of Dreams," whose innocent belief in the magical baseball field plays a key emotional role in the story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.