Madeleine Carroll
E172628
Madeleine Carroll was a British actress best known for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "The 39 Steps" (1935), which made her one of the first major British female stars in Hollywood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madeleine Carroll canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T964987 — 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 Carroll Context triple: [Sterling Hayden, spouse, Madeleine Carroll]
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A.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
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B.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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C.
Caroline Black
Caroline Black is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Black.
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D.
Catherine Suckling
Catherine Suckling was an 18th-century English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
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E.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
- 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 Carroll Target entity description: Madeleine Carroll was a British actress best known for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "The 39 Steps" (1935), which made her one of the first major British female stars in Hollywood.
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A.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
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B.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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C.
Caroline Black
Caroline Black is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Black.
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D.
Catherine Suckling
Catherine Suckling was an 18th-century English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
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E.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Carroll Description of subject: Madeleine Carroll was a British actress best known for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "The 39 Steps" (1935), which made her one of the first major British female stars in Hollywood.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.