Patty McCormack
E131600
Patty McCormack is an American actress best known for her chilling childhood performance in the 1956 film "The Bad Seed," which earned her significant critical acclaim and early career honors.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patty McCormack canonical | 8 |
| Patricia McCormack | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T984578 — 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: Patty McCormack Context triple: [Academy Juvenile Award, notableRecipient, Patty McCormack]
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A.
Tilly Foster
Tilly Foster is a small hamlet in the Town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York, known historically for its former iron mine and rural character.
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B.
Maud Adams
Maud Adams is a Swedish actress best known for her roles as Bond girls in the James Bond films "The Man with the Golden Gun" and "Octopussy."
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C.
Kathleen Quinlan
Kathleen Quinlan is an American film and television actress best known for her Academy Award–nominated performance as Marilyn Lovell in the 1995 space drama "Apollo 13."
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D.
Lindsay Crouse
Lindsay Crouse is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including an Academy Award–nominated role in "Places in the Heart."
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E.
Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams was an American actress best known for her role as Shirley Feeney on the hit television sitcom "Laverne & Shirley."
- 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: Patty McCormack Target entity description: Patty McCormack is an American actress best known for her chilling childhood performance in the 1956 film "The Bad Seed," which earned her significant critical acclaim and early career honors.
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A.
Tilly Foster
Tilly Foster is a small hamlet in the Town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York, known historically for its former iron mine and rural character.
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B.
Maud Adams
Maud Adams is a Swedish actress best known for her roles as Bond girls in the James Bond films "The Man with the Golden Gun" and "Octopussy."
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C.
Kathleen Quinlan
Kathleen Quinlan is an American film and television actress best known for her Academy Award–nominated performance as Marilyn Lovell in the 1995 space drama "Apollo 13."
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D.
Lindsay Crouse
Lindsay Crouse is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including an Academy Award–nominated role in "Places in the Heart."
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E.
Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams was an American actress best known for her role as Shirley Feeney on the hit television sitcom "Laverne & Shirley."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Patty McCormack Description of subject: Patty McCormack is an American actress best known for her chilling childhood performance in the 1956 film "The Bad Seed," which earned her significant critical acclaim and early career honors.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Patty McCormack