Maddy Magellan
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Maddy Magellan is a sharp, inquisitive investigative journalist who partners with illusion designer Jonathan Creek to solve baffling, seemingly impossible crimes in the British mystery series "Jonathan Creek."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maddy Magellan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11036802 — 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: Maddy Magellan Context triple: [Jonathan Creek, hasCompanionCharacter, Maddy Magellan]
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A.
Maddy
Maddy is a common diminutive or nickname typically used for the given name Madison.
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B.
Madeline Morando
Madeline Morando was the mother of American film producer and director Bryan Foy, associated with early Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Madeline Rogero
Madeline Rogero is an American politician and urban planner who became the first female mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee.
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D.
Maddy Hinson
Maddy Hinson is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the anthology drama series "Genius."
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E.
Madeline Ashton
Madeline Ashton is a vain, aging Hollywood actress whose obsession with youth and beauty leads her to drink a magical potion granting eternal life in the dark comedy film "Death Becomes Her."
- 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: Maddy Magellan Target entity description: Maddy Magellan is a sharp, inquisitive investigative journalist who partners with illusion designer Jonathan Creek to solve baffling, seemingly impossible crimes in the British mystery series "Jonathan Creek."
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A.
Maddy
Maddy is a common diminutive or nickname typically used for the given name Madison.
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B.
Madeline Morando
Madeline Morando was the mother of American film producer and director Bryan Foy, associated with early Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Madeline Rogero
Madeline Rogero is an American politician and urban planner who became the first female mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee.
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D.
Maddy Hinson
Maddy Hinson is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the anthology drama series "Genius."
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E.
Madeline Ashton
Madeline Ashton is a vain, aging Hollywood actress whose obsession with youth and beauty leads her to drink a magical potion granting eternal life in the dark comedy film "Death Becomes Her."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Jonathan Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | illusion design ⓘ |
| characterType | amateur sleuth ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | David Renwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | Jonathan Creek series 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
crime drama
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detective fiction ⓘ mystery television series ⓘ |
| investigates |
baffling mysteries
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seemingly impossible crimes ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | investigative partner to Jonathan Creek ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcastOfWork | BBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
inquisitive
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persistent ⓘ resourceful ⓘ sharp ⓘ |
| occupation |
investigative journalist
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reporter ⓘ |
| partner | Jonathan Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Caroline Quentin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMotivation | solving unusual and impossible crimes ⓘ |
| role | co-lead character in Jonathan Creek ⓘ |
| seriesTitle | Jonathan Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksWith | illusion designer Jonathan Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Maddy Magellan Description of subject: Maddy Magellan is a sharp, inquisitive investigative journalist who partners with illusion designer Jonathan Creek to solve baffling, seemingly impossible crimes in the British mystery series "Jonathan Creek."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.