Aline MacMahon
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Aline MacMahon was an American stage and film actress known for her sharp wit and character roles in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aline MacMahon canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2546712 — 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: Aline MacMahon Context triple: [Gold Diggers of 1933, stars, Aline MacMahon]
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A.
Flora Hewlett
Flora Hewlett was a philanthropist whose legacy is honored through the naming of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major charitable organization.
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B.
Florence Mackenzie
Florence Mackenzie was the wife of Scottish Olympic champion and missionary Eric Liddell, known for supporting his work in China and caring for their family during his internment and death in World War II.
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C.
Margaret Moffette Lea
Margaret Moffette Lea was the second wife of Texas statesman Sam Houston and a prominent 19th-century Southern woman known for her influence on his personal life and religious convictions.
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D.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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E.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
- 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: Aline MacMahon Target entity description: Aline MacMahon was an American stage and film actress known for her sharp wit and character roles in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema.
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A.
Flora Hewlett
Flora Hewlett was a philanthropist whose legacy is honored through the naming of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major charitable organization.
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B.
Florence Mackenzie
Florence Mackenzie was the wife of Scottish Olympic champion and missionary Eric Liddell, known for supporting his work in China and caring for their family during his internment and death in World War II.
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C.
Margaret Moffette Lea
Margaret Moffette Lea was the second wife of Texas statesman Sam Houston and a prominent 19th-century Southern woman known for her influence on his personal life and religious convictions.
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D.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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E.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Aline MacMahon Description of subject: Aline MacMahon was an American stage and film actress known for her sharp wit and character roles in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.