Marie McKay
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Marie McKay was the wife of Austrian-American actor Joseph Schildkraut, a prominent performer of stage and early Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marie McKay canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8133761 — 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 McKay Context triple: [Joseph Schildkraut, spouse, Marie McKay]
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A.
Marie McDonald
Marie McDonald was an American singer and film actress of the 1940s and 1950s, nicknamed "The Body" for her glamorous pin-up image.
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B.
Marie Fisher
Marie Fisher was the first wife of Fiorello H. La Guardia, the reformist mayor of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Elizabeth McDowell
Elizabeth McDowell was the wife of American Regionalist painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton.
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D.
Ellen McHugh
Ellen McHugh is a fictional character appearing in the 1928 silent drama film "Mother Machree."
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E.
Joan McCracken
Joan McCracken was an American actress and dancer known for her comic talent and influential work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
- 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 McKay Target entity description: Marie McKay was the wife of Austrian-American actor Joseph Schildkraut, a prominent performer of stage and early Hollywood cinema.
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A.
Marie McDonald
Marie McDonald was an American singer and film actress of the 1940s and 1950s, nicknamed "The Body" for her glamorous pin-up image.
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B.
Marie Fisher
Marie Fisher was the first wife of Fiorello H. La Guardia, the reformist mayor of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Elizabeth McDowell
Elizabeth McDowell was the wife of American Regionalist painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton.
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D.
Ellen McHugh
Ellen McHugh is a fictional character appearing in the 1928 silent drama film "Mother Machree."
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E.
Joan McCracken
Joan McCracken was an American actress and dancer known for her comic talent and influential work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Austria
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1896-03-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1964-01-21 ⓘ |
| genre |
film acting
ⓘ
stage acting ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Austrian-American actor Joseph Schildkraut ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Diary of Anne Frank (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank
The Life of Emile Zola ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vienna ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Joseph Schildkraut ⓘ |
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 McKay Description of subject: Marie McKay was the wife of Austrian-American actor Joseph Schildkraut, a prominent performer of stage and early Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Schildkraut