Virginia Fields
E323923
Virginia Fields is known as the wife of legendary American football coach and broadcaster John Madden.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virginia Fields canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3038240 — 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: Virginia Fields Context triple: [John Madden, spouse, Virginia Fields]
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A.
Virginia Cunningham
Virginia Cunningham is the troubled protagonist of the novel and film "The Snake Pit," whose experiences depict the harsh realities of life inside a mid-20th-century psychiatric institution.
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B.
Byra Whittlesey
Byra Whittlesey was the first wife of Jack Hemingway, the son of author Ernest Hemingway, and the mother of his three daughters.
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C.
Mary Wheeler
Mary Wheeler is a sibling of the renowned American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler.
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D.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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E.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
- 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: Virginia Fields Target entity description: Virginia Fields is known as the wife of legendary American football coach and broadcaster John Madden.
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A.
Virginia Cunningham
Virginia Cunningham is the troubled protagonist of the novel and film "The Snake Pit," whose experiences depict the harsh realities of life inside a mid-20th-century psychiatric institution.
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B.
Byra Whittlesey
Byra Whittlesey was the first wife of Jack Hemingway, the son of author Ernest Hemingway, and the mother of his three daughters.
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C.
Mary Wheeler
Mary Wheeler is a sibling of the renowned American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler.
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D.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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E.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
National Football League culture
ⓘ
Oakland Raiders community ⓘ |
| child |
Joseph Madden
ⓘ
Michael Madden ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity | education ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1959 ⓘ |
| name | Virginia Fields Madden ⓘ |
| notableEvent | long-term marriage to John Madden ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of American football coach and broadcaster John Madden ⓘ |
| occupation | teacher ⓘ |
| relative | John Madden ⓘ |
| residence |
Oakland, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Oakland
Pleasanton, California ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | John Madden ⓘ |
| spouseEmployer |
ABC Sports
ⓘ
CBS Sports ⓘ Fox Sports ⓘ NBC Sports ⓘ Oakland Raiders ⓘ
linked to:
Las Vegas Raiders
|
| spouseOccupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
sports broadcaster ⓘ |
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: Virginia Fields Description of subject: Virginia Fields is known as the wife of legendary American football coach and broadcaster John Madden.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.