Shauna Macdonald
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Shauna Macdonald is a Scottish actress best known for her lead role in the horror film "The Descent" and its sequel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shauna Macdonald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8485964 — 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: Shauna Macdonald Context triple: [The Descent, stars, Shauna Macdonald]
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A.
Moira McGlashan
Moira McGlashan is the wife of former Scottish First Minister and Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond.
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B.
Elizabeth McRae
Elizabeth McRae is known primarily as the wife of influential television producer Sydney Newman, a key figure in British and Canadian TV history.
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C.
Grace McKagan
Grace McKagan is an American singer and model best known as the frontwoman of the rock band The Pink Slips and the daughter of Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan.
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D.
Sheila Falconer
Sheila Falconer is a British actress and choreographer best known for her long marriage to actor Patrick Stewart.
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E.
Maggie Shaw
Maggie Shaw is a fictional character played by Irish actress Dominique McElligott, known from the science fiction series "The Astronaut Wives Club."
- 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: Shauna Macdonald Target entity description: Shauna Macdonald is a Scottish actress best known for her lead role in the horror film "The Descent" and its sequel.
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A.
Moira McGlashan
Moira McGlashan is the wife of former Scottish First Minister and Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond.
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B.
Elizabeth McRae
Elizabeth McRae is known primarily as the wife of influential television producer Sydney Newman, a key figure in British and Canadian TV history.
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C.
Grace McKagan
Grace McKagan is an American singer and model best known as the frontwoman of the rock band The Pink Slips and the daughter of Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan.
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D.
Sheila Falconer
Sheila Falconer is a British actress and choreographer best known for her long marriage to actor Patrick Stewart.
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E.
Maggie Shaw
Maggie Shaw is a fictional character played by Irish actress Dominique McElligott, known from the science fiction series "The Astronaut Wives Club."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish person
ⓘ
actress ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1981-02-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Macdonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Shauna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Shauna Macdonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Filth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spooks NERFINISHED ⓘ The Descent NERFINISHED ⓘ The Descent Part 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ White Chamber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
voice actress ⓘ |
| playedRole |
Sam Buxton in Spooks
NERFINISHED
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Sarah Carter in The Descent NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Carter in The Descent Part 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Cal Macaninch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Shauna Macdonald Description of subject: Shauna Macdonald is a Scottish actress best known for her lead role in the horror film "The Descent" and its sequel.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.