Frances Lee McCain
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Frances Lee McCain is an American actress known for her supporting roles in popular films of the 1980s and 1990s, including "Footloose," "Gremlins," "Back to the Future," and "Stand by Me."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frances Lee McCain canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10527165 — 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: Frances Lee McCain Context triple: [Patch Adams, starring, Frances Lee McCain]
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A.
Helen Taft Manning
Helen Taft Manning was an American historian, suffragist, and long-serving dean at Bryn Mawr College who was also the daughter of U.S. President William Howard Taft.
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B.
Frances Minturn Howard
Frances Minturn Howard was an American poet and author known for her mid-20th-century verse and contributions to literary magazines.
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C.
Mary McVicker Booth
Mary McVicker Booth was a 19th-century American actress best known for her stage career and for being the second wife of renowned tragedian Edwin Booth.
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D.
Almira Russell Hancock
Almira Russell Hancock was the wife of Union General Winfield Scott Hancock and an American author known for her memoirs about her husband's military career and their life together.
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E.
Nancy Fowler McCormick
Nancy Fowler McCormick was an American philanthropist and socialite known for her charitable work and for being married to agricultural machinery inventor Cyrus McCormick.
- 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: Frances Lee McCain Target entity description: Frances Lee McCain is an American actress known for her supporting roles in popular films of the 1980s and 1990s, including "Footloose," "Gremlins," "Back to the Future," and "Stand by Me."
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A.
Helen Taft Manning
Helen Taft Manning was an American historian, suffragist, and long-serving dean at Bryn Mawr College who was also the daughter of U.S. President William Howard Taft.
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B.
Frances Minturn Howard
Frances Minturn Howard was an American poet and author known for her mid-20th-century verse and contributions to literary magazines.
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C.
Mary McVicker Booth
Mary McVicker Booth was a 19th-century American actress best known for her stage career and for being the second wife of renowned tragedian Edwin Booth.
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D.
Almira Russell Hancock
Almira Russell Hancock was the wife of Union General Winfield Scott Hancock and an American author known for her memoirs about her husband's military career and their life together.
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E.
Nancy Fowler McCormick
Nancy Fowler McCormick was an American philanthropist and socialite known for her charitable work and for being married to agricultural machinery inventor Cyrus McCormick.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | McCain ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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performing arts ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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coming-of-age film ⓘ drama ⓘ horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName | Frances ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0564724 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
portraying mothers of main characters
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supporting roles in 1980s films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Frances Lee McCain ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Back to the Future
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Dallas ⓘ Family Ties ⓘ Footloose ⓘ Gremlins ⓘ Law & Order ⓘ Murder, She Wrote ⓘ Patch Adams ⓘ Scream ⓘ Stand by Me ⓘ The Twilight Zone ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
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| occupation |
actress
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film actress ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hollywood film industry
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linked to:
United States entertainment industry
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| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| typeOfRole |
character actress
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supporting role ⓘ |
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: Frances Lee McCain Description of subject: Frances Lee McCain is an American actress known for her supporting roles in popular films of the 1980s and 1990s, including "Footloose," "Gremlins," "Back to the Future," and "Stand by Me."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.