Marie Wilson
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Marie Wilson was an American film, radio, and television actress best known for her comedic roles in the mid-20th century, particularly as the scatterbrained character "My Friend Irma."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marie Wilson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10088910 — 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: Marie Wilson Context triple: [Satan Met a Lady, stars, Marie Wilson]
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A.
Marie Wilson
Marie Wilson is a Canadian journalist, educator, and public servant best known for serving as one of the three commissioners of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, which investigated the legacy of the Indian Residential School system.
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B.
Helen Flint
Helen Flint is a television and film producer known for her work as an executive producer on high-profile drama series.
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C.
Mary Dixon
Mary Dixon is a fictional character from the long-running British television police drama "Dixon of Dock Green."
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D.
Mary Jane Grant
Mary Jane Grant is best known as the former wife of American actor Richard Roundtree, famed for his iconic role as detective John Shaft in the "Shaft" film series.
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E.
Helen McLeod
Helen McLeod is the mother of Scottish actor David Tennant, known for his roles in "Doctor Who" and "Broadchurch."
- 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: Marie Wilson Target entity description: Marie Wilson was an American film, radio, and television actress best known for her comedic roles in the mid-20th century, particularly as the scatterbrained character "My Friend Irma."
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A.
Marie Wilson
Marie Wilson is a Canadian journalist, educator, and public servant best known for serving as one of the three commissioners of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, which investigated the legacy of the Indian Residential School system.
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B.
Helen Flint
Helen Flint is a television and film producer known for her work as an executive producer on high-profile drama series.
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C.
Mary Dixon
Mary Dixon is a fictional character from the long-running British television police drama "Dixon of Dock Green."
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D.
Mary Jane Grant
Mary Jane Grant is best known as the former wife of American actor Richard Roundtree, famed for his iconic role as detective John Shaft in the "Shaft" film series.
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E.
Helen McLeod
Helen McLeod is the mother of Scottish actor David Tennant, known for his roles in "Doctor Who" and "Broadchurch."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ radio actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| basedIn | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Katherine Elizabeth Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| characterRole | Irma Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1916-08-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1972-11-23 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Wilson ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Katherine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHairColor | blonde ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0933699 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Marie Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portraying scatterbrained comedic characters
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radio-to-film character transition with My Friend Irma ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Broadway Hostess
NERFINISHED
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My Friend Irma NERFINISHED ⓘ My Friend Irma (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ My Friend Irma (television series) NERFINISHED ⓘ My Friend Irma Goes West NERFINISHED ⓘ Never Wave at a WAC NERFINISHED ⓘ Rookies on Parade NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fabulous Joe NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Gildersleeve NERFINISHED ⓘ The Life of Riley (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Private Affairs of Bel Ami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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comedian ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Anaheim, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
My Friend Irma (1949 film)
NERFINISHED
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My Friend Irma Goes West (1950 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Allan Nixon
NERFINISHED
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Robert Fallon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: Marie Wilson Description of subject: Marie Wilson was an American film, radio, and television actress best known for her comedic roles in the mid-20th century, particularly as the scatterbrained character "My Friend Irma."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.