Edna Rae Gillooly
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Edna Rae Gillooly is the birth name of American actress Ellen Burstyn, an Academy Award–winning performer known for films such as "The Exorcist" and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edna Rae Gillooly canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7567221 — 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: Edna Rae Gillooly Context triple: [Ellen Burstyn, birthName, Edna Rae Gillooly]
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A.
Betty McGlown
Betty McGlown was an original member of the vocal group that would later become the legendary Motown act The Supremes.
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B.
Edythe Chapman
Edythe Chapman was an American stage and silent film actress known for her maternal and character roles in early Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Edna Young
Edna Young is known as the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.
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D.
Verna Felton
Verna Felton was an American character actress and voice performer best known for her memorable roles in classic Disney animated films.
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E.
Mayme Kelso
Mayme Kelso was an American actress of the silent film era, known for her character roles in early 20th-century cinema.
- 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: Edna Rae Gillooly Target entity description: Edna Rae Gillooly is the birth name of American actress Ellen Burstyn, an Academy Award–winning performer known for films such as "The Exorcist" and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore."
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A.
Betty McGlown
Betty McGlown was an original member of the vocal group that would later become the legendary Motown act The Supremes.
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B.
Edythe Chapman
Edythe Chapman was an American stage and silent film actress known for her maternal and character roles in early Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Edna Young
Edna Young is known as the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.
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D.
Verna Felton
Verna Felton was an American character actress and voice performer best known for her memorable roles in classic Disney animated films.
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E.
Mayme Kelso
Mayme Kelso was an American actress of the silent film era, known for her character roles in early 20th-century cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ellen Burstyn
NERFINISHED
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Ellen McRae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Actress
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Golden Globe Award ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award ⓘ |
| birthName | Edna Rae Gillooly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Ellen Burstyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-12-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Actors Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
French Canadian descent
ⓘ
Irish American ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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horror film ⓘ independent film ⓘ |
| hasChild | Jeffrey Burstyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Actors Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Alice Hyatt in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
NERFINISHED
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Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist NERFINISHED ⓘ Sara Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
NERFINISHED
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House of Cards NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstellar NERFINISHED ⓘ Requiem for a Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ Resurrection NERFINISHED ⓘ Same Time, Next Year NERFINISHED ⓘ The Exorcist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Picture Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
acting teacher
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actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pseudonym | Ellen Burstyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Neil Burstyn
NERFINISHED
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Paul Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ William Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–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: Edna Rae Gillooly Description of subject: Edna Rae Gillooly is the birth name of American actress Ellen Burstyn, an Academy Award–winning performer known for films such as "The Exorcist" and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.