Mary Agnes Donoghue
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Mary Agnes Donoghue is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Beaches" and other character-driven dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Agnes Donoghue canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3056212 — 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: Mary Agnes Donoghue Context triple: [Beaches, screenwriter, Mary Agnes Donoghue]
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A.
Virginia Katherine McMath
Virginia Katherine McMath, better known as Ginger Rogers, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her iconic film musicals with Fred Astaire during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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B.
Joan E. Donoghue
Joan E. Donoghue is an American jurist and former judge of the International Court of Justice who served as its president, becoming one of the most prominent contemporary figures in international law.
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C.
Frances H. Townes
Frances H. Townes was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Charles Hard Townes and a partner in his scientific and personal life, known for her support of his career and their shared involvement in academic and community activities.
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D.
Lillian C. McDermott
Lillian C. McDermott was a pioneering physics education researcher and professor known for transforming the teaching and learning of physics through research-based instructional methods.
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E.
Edith Scott Bagley
Edith Scott Bagley was an American educator and the younger sister of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, known for her work in education and support of the civil rights movement.
- 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: Mary Agnes Donoghue Target entity description: Mary Agnes Donoghue is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Beaches" and other character-driven dramas.
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A.
Virginia Katherine McMath
Virginia Katherine McMath, better known as Ginger Rogers, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her iconic film musicals with Fred Astaire during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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B.
Joan E. Donoghue
Joan E. Donoghue is an American jurist and former judge of the International Court of Justice who served as its president, becoming one of the most prominent contemporary figures in international law.
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C.
Frances H. Townes
Frances H. Townes was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Charles Hard Townes and a partner in his scientific and personal life, known for her support of his career and their shared involvement in academic and community activities.
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D.
Lillian C. McDermott
Lillian C. McDermott was a pioneering physics education researcher and professor known for transforming the teaching and learning of physics through research-based instructional methods.
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E.
Edith Scott Bagley
Edith Scott Bagley was an American educator and the younger sister of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, known for her work in education and support of the civil rights movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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film director ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Beaches ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| workFocus | female-centered stories ⓘ |
| writingStyle | character-driven dramas ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor | Beaches ⓘ |
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: Mary Agnes Donoghue Description of subject: Mary Agnes Donoghue is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Beaches" and other character-driven dramas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.