Edna Edison
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Edna Edison is the beleaguered yet resilient wife at the center of Neil Simon’s dark comedy "The Prisoner of Second Avenue," coping with her husband’s nervous breakdown and the stresses of urban life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edna Edison canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23362287 — 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: Edna Edison Context triple: [The Prisoner of Second Avenue, leadCharacter, Edna Edison]
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A.
Madeleine Edison
Madeleine Edison was the daughter of inventor Thomas Edison and his second wife Mina Miller Edison, known primarily as a member of the Edison family.
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B.
Mina Miller Edison
Mina Miller Edison was an American philanthropist and the second wife of inventor Thomas Edison, known for her social activism and management of the Edison household and estate.
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C.
Marion Estelle Edison
Marion Estelle Edison was the daughter of inventor Thomas Edison and his first wife, Mary Stilwell.
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D.
Mary Stilwell Edison
Mary Stilwell Edison was the first wife of inventor Thomas Edison and the mother of three of his children, including Marion Estelle Edison.
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E.
Margaret Livingston Cady
Margaret Livingston Cady was an American woman of the early 19th century best known as the mother of leading suffragist and women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- 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: Edna Edison Target entity description: Edna Edison is the beleaguered yet resilient wife at the center of Neil Simon’s dark comedy "The Prisoner of Second Avenue," coping with her husband’s nervous breakdown and the stresses of urban life.
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A.
Madeleine Edison
Madeleine Edison was the daughter of inventor Thomas Edison and his second wife Mina Miller Edison, known primarily as a member of the Edison family.
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B.
Mina Miller Edison
Mina Miller Edison was an American philanthropist and the second wife of inventor Thomas Edison, known for her social activism and management of the Edison household and estate.
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C.
Marion Estelle Edison
Marion Estelle Edison was the daughter of inventor Thomas Edison and his first wife, Mary Stilwell.
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D.
Mary Stilwell Edison
Mary Stilwell Edison was the first wife of inventor Thomas Edison and the mother of three of his children, including Marion Estelle Edison.
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E.
Margaret Livingston Cady
Margaret Livingston Cady was an American woman of the early 19th century best known as the mother of leading suffragist and women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.