Margaret Clancey
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Margaret Clancey was an American film editor active during the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margaret Clancey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5557989 — 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 Clancey Context triple: [Mother Machree (1928 film), editedBy, Margaret Clancey]
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A.
Margaret Wilson
Margaret Wilson was a young Scottish Covenanter martyr famously executed by drowning in 1685 for refusing to renounce her Presbyterian faith during the period known as the Killing Times.
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B.
Margaret Rudkin
Margaret Rudkin was an American businesswoman and food industry pioneer best known for building Pepperidge Farm from a home baking venture into a major commercial bakery brand.
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C.
Mary Glendinning
Mary Glendinning is a central maternal figure in Herman Melville’s novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," whose complex relationship with her son underscores the book’s themes of family, identity, and moral uncertainty.
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D.
Margaret Cox
Margaret Cox is known as the daughter of British physicist and science communicator Brian Cox.
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E.
Margaret Snodgrass
Margaret Snodgrass is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Snodgrass surname, though specific widely known biographical details about her are not readily available.
- 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 Clancey Target entity description: Margaret Clancey was an American film editor active during the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood cinema.
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A.
Margaret Wilson
Margaret Wilson was a young Scottish Covenanter martyr famously executed by drowning in 1685 for refusing to renounce her Presbyterian faith during the period known as the Killing Times.
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B.
Margaret Rudkin
Margaret Rudkin was an American businesswoman and food industry pioneer best known for building Pepperidge Farm from a home baking venture into a major commercial bakery brand.
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C.
Mary Glendinning
Mary Glendinning is a central maternal figure in Herman Melville’s novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," whose complex relationship with her son underscores the book’s themes of family, identity, and moral uncertainty.
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D.
Margaret Cox
Margaret Cox is known as the daughter of British physicist and science communicator Brian Cox.
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E.
Margaret Snodgrass
Margaret Snodgrass is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Snodgrass surname, though specific widely known biographical details about her are not readily available.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early sound era
ⓘ
silent film era ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Margaret V. Clancey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfBirth | 1897-07-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1989-03-15 ⓘ |
| edited |
The Big Race (1934 film)
NERFINISHED
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble (1933 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil Plays (1931 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gorilla (1927 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Important Witness (1933 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Intruder (1933 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lady Refuses (1931 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lady from Nowhere (1931 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Midnight Lady (1932 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Phantom Express (1932 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sin of Nora Moran (1933 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Film Booking Offices of America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RKO Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | feature films ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | editing films during the transition from silent to sound cinema ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tucson, Arizona, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | James Clancey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| workedOn |
silent films
ⓘ
sound films ⓘ |
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: Margaret Clancey Description of subject: Margaret Clancey was an American film editor active during the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.