Sarah Siddons
E215869
Sarah Siddons was a celebrated 18th-century British tragedienne renowned for her powerful stage performances, particularly in Shakespearean roles such as Lady Macbeth.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Siddons canonical | 23 |
| Maria Siddons | 1 |
| Mrs. Sarah Siddons | 1 |
| Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1913931 — 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: Sarah Siddons Context triple: [Queen’s College, London, notableAlumni, Sarah Siddons]
-
A.
Peggy Ashcroft
Peggy Ashcroft was a distinguished English stage and film actress renowned for her Shakespearean performances and her long, influential career in British theatre.
-
B.
Edith Lesley
Edith Lesley was an American educator and founder of the teacher-training institution that evolved into Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
-
C.
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw was an acclaimed English actress renowned for her intense stage and screen performances, particularly in the plays of Samuel Beckett.
-
D.
Antoinette Perry
Antoinette Perry was an American actress, director, and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, in whose honor the Tony Awards for excellence in Broadway theatre are named.
-
E.
Kathy Burke
Kathy Burke is an English actress, comedian, writer, and director known for her acclaimed work in British film and television, including her BAFTA-winning performance in "Nil by Mouth."
- 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: Sarah Siddons Target entity description: Sarah Siddons was a celebrated 18th-century British tragedienne renowned for her powerful stage performances, particularly in Shakespearean roles such as Lady Macbeth.
-
A.
Peggy Ashcroft
Peggy Ashcroft was a distinguished English stage and film actress renowned for her Shakespearean performances and her long, influential career in British theatre.
-
B.
Edith Lesley
Edith Lesley was an American educator and founder of the teacher-training institution that evolved into Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
-
C.
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw was an acclaimed English actress renowned for her intense stage and screen performances, particularly in the plays of Samuel Beckett.
-
D.
Antoinette Perry
Antoinette Perry was an American actress, director, and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, in whose honor the Tony Awards for excellence in Broadway theatre are named.
-
E.
Kathy Burke
Kathy Burke is an English actress, comedian, writer, and director known for her acclaimed work in British film and television, including her BAFTA-winning performance in "Nil by Mouth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sarah Siddons Description of subject: Sarah Siddons was a celebrated 18th-century British tragedienne renowned for her powerful stage performances, particularly in Shakespearean roles such as Lady Macbeth.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sarah Siddons
linked to: Sarah Siddons
linked to: Sarah Siddons
subject linked to:
Kemble