Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly
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Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly is a celebrated comic performance by the distinguished British character actress in Orson Welles’s Shakespearean film "Chimes at Midnight."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly canonical | 2 |
| Shakespearean character Mistress Quickly | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8742218 — 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 Rutherford as Mistress Quickly Context triple: [Chimes at Midnight, portraysCharacter, Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly]
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A.
Mrs. Peachum
Mrs. Peachum is a central character in John Gay’s ballad opera "The Beggar’s Opera," known as Polly Peachum’s sharp-tongued, scheming mother.
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B.
Shirley Valentine
Shirley Valentine is a 1989 British comedy-drama film, based on Willy Russell’s play, about a middle-aged Liverpool housewife who rediscovers herself during a life-changing trip to Greece.
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C.
Alfred P. Doolittle
Alfred P. Doolittle is a jovial, hard-drinking dustman and the comically amoral father of Eliza Doolittle in the musical film "My Fair Lady."
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D.
Eliza Doolittle
Eliza Doolittle is the spirited Cockney flower girl who becomes the central subject of a phonetic and social transformation in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Pygmalion" and its musical adaptation "My Fair Lady."
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E.
Edna Pickles
Edna Pickles was the first wife of Canadian-American actor Walter Pidgeon, to whom he was married before his later, more widely known marriage to Ruth Walker.
- 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 Rutherford as Mistress Quickly Target entity description: Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly is a celebrated comic performance by the distinguished British character actress in Orson Welles’s Shakespearean film "Chimes at Midnight."
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A.
Mrs. Peachum
Mrs. Peachum is a central character in John Gay’s ballad opera "The Beggar’s Opera," known as Polly Peachum’s sharp-tongued, scheming mother.
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B.
Shirley Valentine
Shirley Valentine is a 1989 British comedy-drama film, based on Willy Russell’s play, about a middle-aged Liverpool housewife who rediscovers herself during a life-changing trip to Greece.
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C.
Alfred P. Doolittle
Alfred P. Doolittle is a jovial, hard-drinking dustman and the comically amoral father of Eliza Doolittle in the musical film "My Fair Lady."
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D.
Eliza Doolittle
Eliza Doolittle is the spirited Cockney flower girl who becomes the central subject of a phonetic and social transformation in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Pygmalion" and its musical adaptation "My Fair Lady."
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E.
Edna Pickles
Edna Pickles was the first wife of Canadian-American actor Walter Pidgeon, to whom he was married before his later, more widely known marriage to Ruth Walker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film performance
ⓘ
screen role ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
Shakespearean character Mistress Quickly
ⓘ
linked to:
Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly
|
| appearsInFilm | Chimes at Midnight ⓘ |
| associatedWithDirector | Orson Welles ⓘ |
| basedOnPlays |
Henry IV, Part 1
ⓘ
Henry IV, Part 2 ⓘ Henry V ⓘ
linked to:
Henry V (play)
Richard II ⓘ
linked to:
King Richard II of England
The Merry Wives of Windsor ⓘ |
| basedOnWorksBy | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| character | Mistress Quickly ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directorOfFilm | Orson Welles ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Shakespearean screen acting
ⓘ
comic characterization ⓘ |
| partOf | Chimes at Midnight cast ⓘ |
| performanceType | supporting role ⓘ |
| performedBy | Margaret Rutherford ⓘ |
| portrays | hostess of the Boar's Head Tavern ⓘ |
| sourceCharacterCreatedBy | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly Description of subject: Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly is a celebrated comic performance by the distinguished British character actress in Orson Welles’s Shakespearean film "Chimes at Midnight."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly