Mary Steenburgen
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Mary Steenburgen is an American actress known for her versatile performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Melvin and Howard," "Back to the Future Part III," and numerous character-driven dramas and comedies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Steenburgen canonical | 53 |
| Mary Nell Steenburgen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1276797 — 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: Mary Steenburgen Context triple: [The Brave One, starring, Mary Steenburgen]
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Candice Bergen
Candice Bergen is an American actress and former fashion model best known for her Emmy-winning role as the sharp-tongued journalist Murphy Brown on the hit television sitcom of the same name.
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B.
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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C.
Bonnie Hunt
Bonnie Hunt is an American actress, comedian, writer, director, and television host known for her roles in films like "Jumanji," "Jerry Maguire," and "Cheaper by the Dozen," as well as for voicing characters in multiple Pixar animated movies.
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D.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress and comedian best known for her role as Chloe O'Brian on the television series "24."
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E.
Ann Magnuson
Ann Magnuson is an American actress, performance artist, and singer known for her work in underground theater, film, and the 1980s New York art and music scene.
- 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: Mary Steenburgen Target entity description: Mary Steenburgen is an American actress known for her versatile performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Melvin and Howard," "Back to the Future Part III," and numerous character-driven dramas and comedies.
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A.
Candice Bergen
Candice Bergen is an American actress and former fashion model best known for her Emmy-winning role as the sharp-tongued journalist Murphy Brown on the hit television sitcom of the same name.
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B.
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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C.
Bonnie Hunt
Bonnie Hunt is an American actress, comedian, writer, director, and television host known for her roles in films like "Jumanji," "Jerry Maguire," and "Cheaper by the Dozen," as well as for voicing characters in multiple Pixar animated movies.
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D.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress and comedian best known for her role as Chloe O'Brian on the television series "24."
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E.
Ann Magnuson
Ann Magnuson is an American actress, performance artist, and singer known for her work in underground theater, film, and the 1980s New York art and music scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Mary Steenburgen Description of subject: Mary Steenburgen is an American actress known for her versatile performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Melvin and Howard," "Back to the Future Part III," and numerous character-driven dramas and comedies.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nightmare Alley
linked to: Mary Steenburgen
subject linked to:
Philadelphia
subject linked to:
The Last Man on Earth (TV series)
subject linked to:
film "The Proposal"
subject linked to:
Newport, Arkansas, United States
subject linked to:
Casa de los babys