Marjorie Marshall
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Marjorie Marshall was an American tap dance teacher and the mother of filmmaker and actress Penny Marshall.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marjorie Marshall canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1958006 — 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: Marjorie Marshall Context triple: [Penny Marshall, mother, Marjorie Marshall]
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A.
Margaret Haley
Margaret Haley was an influential American educator and labor activist who championed teachers' rights and helped pioneer the modern teachers' union movement.
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B.
Ruth Cunningham
Ruth Cunningham was the wife of American colonial lawyer and patriot James Otis Jr., a prominent figure in the early resistance to British rule.
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C.
Margaret Hogan
Margaret Hogan was the wife of legendary Major League Baseball manager and team owner Connie Mack.
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D.
Martha McMillan Roberts
Martha McMillan Roberts was a Farm Security Administration photographer known for documenting American life during the Great Depression era.
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E.
Marjorie Nelson
Marjorie Nelson was an American actress known for her work on stage and screen and for being married to fellow actor Howard Da Silva.
- 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: Marjorie Marshall Target entity description: Marjorie Marshall was an American tap dance teacher and the mother of filmmaker and actress Penny Marshall.
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A.
Margaret Haley
Margaret Haley was an influential American educator and labor activist who championed teachers' rights and helped pioneer the modern teachers' union movement.
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B.
Ruth Cunningham
Ruth Cunningham was the wife of American colonial lawyer and patriot James Otis Jr., a prominent figure in the early resistance to British rule.
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C.
Margaret Hogan
Margaret Hogan was the wife of legendary Major League Baseball manager and team owner Connie Mack.
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D.
Martha McMillan Roberts
Martha McMillan Roberts was a Farm Security Administration photographer known for documenting American life during the Great Depression era.
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E.
Marjorie Nelson
Marjorie Nelson was an American actress known for her work on stage and screen and for being married to fellow actor Howard Da Silva.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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tap dance teacher ⓘ |
| child | Penny Marshall ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| mother | Marjorie Marshall self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| notableWork | teaching tap dance ⓘ |
| occupation | tap dance teacher ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Marjorie Marshall Description of subject: Marjorie Marshall was an American tap dance teacher and the mother of filmmaker and actress Penny Marshall.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Penny Marshall