Margaret Wycherly
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Margaret Wycherly was an English-born American stage and film actress best known for her character roles in early 20th-century cinema, including her Oscar-nominated performance in "Sergeant York."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margaret Wycherly canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4356471 — 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: Margaret Wycherly Context triple: [Sergeant York, starring, Margaret Wycherly]
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A.
Eliza Haywood
Eliza Haywood was an influential 18th-century English writer, actress, and publisher best known for her amatory fiction, periodical essays, and contributions to early feminist literary discourse.
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B.
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn was a pioneering 17th-century English playwright, poet, and novelist, often regarded as one of the first professional female writers in English literature.
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C.
Thomas Otway
Thomas Otway was a prominent 17th-century English dramatist best known for his emotionally intense Restoration tragedies such as "Venice Preserv'd."
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D.
Elizabeth Barry
Elizabeth Barry was a celebrated 17th-century English stage actress renowned for her powerful tragic performances during the Restoration era.
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E.
William Wycherley
William Wycherley was a prominent 17th-century English dramatist best known for his sharp, satirical Restoration comedies such as "The Country Wife" and "The Plain Dealer."
- 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: Margaret Wycherly Target entity description: Margaret Wycherly was an English-born American stage and film actress best known for her character roles in early 20th-century cinema, including her Oscar-nominated performance in "Sergeant York."
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A.
Eliza Haywood
Eliza Haywood was an influential 18th-century English writer, actress, and publisher best known for her amatory fiction, periodical essays, and contributions to early feminist literary discourse.
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B.
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn was a pioneering 17th-century English playwright, poet, and novelist, often regarded as one of the first professional female writers in English literature.
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C.
Thomas Otway
Thomas Otway was a prominent 17th-century English dramatist best known for his emotionally intense Restoration tragedies such as "Venice Preserv'd."
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D.
Elizabeth Barry
Elizabeth Barry was a celebrated 17th-century English stage actress renowned for her powerful tragic performances during the Restoration era.
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E.
William Wycherley
William Wycherley was a prominent 17th-century English dramatist best known for his sharp, satirical Restoration comedies such as "The Country Wife" and "The Plain Dealer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
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human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsInCareer | early 20th century ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Margaret De Wolfe Wycherly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| child | Anthony Veiller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1881-10-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1956-06-06 ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
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surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| ethnicOrigin | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Wycherly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Margaret ⓘ |
| knownFor | character roles ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Margaret Wycherly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Sergeant York" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | Mother of Alvin C. York in "Sergeant York" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dragon Seed
NERFINISHED
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Keeper of the Flame NERFINISHED ⓘ Random Harvest NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergeant York NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Shot NERFINISHED ⓘ The Corn Is Green (stage) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fighting Sullivans NERFINISHED ⓘ The Glass Menagerie (stage) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Judge Steps Out NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man with the Golden Arm NERFINISHED ⓘ The Moon Is Down NERFINISHED ⓘ The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (stage) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ox-Bow Incident NERFINISHED ⓘ The President Vanishes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Return of the Whistler NERFINISHED ⓘ The Road to Glory NERFINISHED ⓘ The Romance of Rosy Ridge NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sin of Madelon Claudet NERFINISHED ⓘ The Southerner NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thirteenth Chair NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thirteenth Chair (stage) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Yearling NERFINISHED ⓘ Tobacco Road (stage) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Bayard Veiller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Margaret Wycherly Description of subject: Margaret Wycherly was an English-born American stage and film actress best known for her character roles in early 20th-century cinema, including her Oscar-nominated performance in "Sergeant York."
Referenced by (2)
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