Jeanette MacDonald
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Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best known as a glamorous operetta and musical film star of the 1930s and 1940s, frequently paired on screen with Nelson Eddy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeanette MacDonald canonical | 35 |
| Jeanette Anna MacDonald | 1 |
| Jeanette MacDonald as Colette Bertier | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4272601 — 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: Jeanette MacDonald Context triple: [Love Me Tonight, starring, Jeanette MacDonald]
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A.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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B.
Constance Bennett
Constance Bennett was a prominent American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s, known for her sophisticated screen presence and roles in early Hollywood talkies.
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C.
Helen Morgan
Helen Morgan was an American torch singer and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, best known for her emotionally charged nightclub performances and her iconic role as Julie LaVerne in the musical "Show Boat."
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D.
Norma Shearer
Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American film actress and major MGM star of the 1920s and 1930s, renowned for her sophisticated roles and an Academy Award–winning performance in "The Divorcee."
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E.
Margaret Sullavan
Margaret Sullavan was an acclaimed American stage and film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known for her sensitive, naturalistic performances in films such as "The Shop Around the Corner."
- 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: Jeanette MacDonald Target entity description: Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best known as a glamorous operetta and musical film star of the 1930s and 1940s, frequently paired on screen with Nelson Eddy.
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A.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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B.
Constance Bennett
Constance Bennett was a prominent American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s, known for her sophisticated screen presence and roles in early Hollywood talkies.
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C.
Helen Morgan
Helen Morgan was an American torch singer and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, best known for her emotionally charged nightclub performances and her iconic role as Julie LaVerne in the musical "Show Boat."
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D.
Norma Shearer
Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American film actress and major MGM star of the 1920s and 1930s, renowned for her sophisticated roles and an Academy Award–winning performance in "The Divorcee."
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E.
Margaret Sullavan
Margaret Sullavan was an acclaimed American stage and film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known for her sensitive, naturalistic performances in films such as "The Shop Around the Corner."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Jeanette MacDonald Description of subject: Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best known as a glamorous operetta and musical film star of the 1930s and 1940s, frequently paired on screen with Nelson Eddy.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jeanette MacDonald
subject linked to:
Naughty Marietta
linked to: Jeanette MacDonald
subject linked to:
The Cat and the Fiddle
subject linked to:
The Cat and the Fiddle