Jean Muir
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Jean Muir was an American film, stage, and television actress active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for her roles in Hollywood productions and later for being one of the first performers blacklisted during the Red Scare.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jean Muir canonical | 6 |
| Jean Muir Fullarton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1200258 — 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: Jean Muir Context triple: [A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film), stars, Jean Muir]
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A.
Katharine Tait
Katharine Tait is a British writer and teacher best known as the daughter of philosopher Bertrand Russell and for her memoir about growing up in his unconventional, secular household.
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B.
Jane Innes
Jane Innes was the wife of British statesman Thomas Pitt, connecting her to a prominent political and mercantile family in 18th-century Britain.
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C.
Elizabeth Mure
Elizabeth Mure was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the first wife of King Robert II of Scotland and the mother of several children who founded key branches of the Stewart dynasty.
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D.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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E.
Barbara Duncan
Barbara Duncan was the second wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the New Deal and World War II.
- 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: Jean Muir Target entity description: Jean Muir was an American film, stage, and television actress active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for her roles in Hollywood productions and later for being one of the first performers blacklisted during the Red Scare.
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A.
Katharine Tait
Katharine Tait is a British writer and teacher best known as the daughter of philosopher Bertrand Russell and for her memoir about growing up in his unconventional, secular household.
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B.
Jane Innes
Jane Innes was the wife of British statesman Thomas Pitt, connecting her to a prominent political and mercantile family in 18th-century Britain.
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C.
Elizabeth Mure
Elizabeth Mure was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the first wife of King Robert II of Scotland and the mother of several children who founded key branches of the Stewart dynasty.
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D.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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E.
Barbara Duncan
Barbara Duncan was the second wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the New Deal and World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hollywood blacklist
ⓘ
linked to:
McCarthyism
Red Scare ⓘ
linked to:
McCarthyism
|
| birthName |
Jean Muir Fullarton
ⓘ
linked to:
Jean Muir
|
| causeOfNotability | blacklisting in the entertainment industry during the Red Scare ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era |
Red Scare in the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
First Red Scare
|
| familyName | Fullarton ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
ⓘ
stage acting ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | Hollywood productions ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Hollywood studio system
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linked to:
Hollywood studios
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| name | Jean Muir ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Hollywood films of the 1930s
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Hollywood films of the 1940s ⓘ being one of the first performers blacklisted during the Red Scare ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hollywood film roles in the 1930s
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Hollywood film roles in the 1940s ⓘ television appearances in the early years of American TV ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
American cinema of the 1930s
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
American cinema of the 1940s ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
American television industry
ⓘ
American theatre ⓘ Hollywood ⓘ United States film industry ⓘ
linked to:
American cinema
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| subjectOf | discussions of the Hollywood blacklist ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1930s
ⓘ
1940s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jean Muir Description of subject: Jean Muir was an American film, stage, and television actress active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for her roles in Hollywood productions and later for being one of the first performers blacklisted during the Red Scare.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.