Maria de Medeiros
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Maria de Medeiros is a Portuguese actress and filmmaker known internationally for her roles in independent and art-house films, including Quentin Tarantino’s "Pulp Fiction."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maria de Medeiros canonical | 5 |
| Maria de Medeiros Esteves Vitorino de Almeida | 1 |
| María de Medeiros | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3286362 — 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: Maria de Medeiros Context triple: [Pulp Fiction, castMember, Maria de Medeiros]
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A.
Maria Teresa Teixeira de Queiroz
Maria Teresa Teixeira de Queiroz was the wife of Marcelo Caetano, the last prime minister of Portugal’s Estado Novo regime.
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B.
Beatriz Pimentel
Beatriz Pimentel was a Spanish noblewoman best known as the mother of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, the powerful 3rd Duke of Alba and prominent military commander of the 16th century.
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C.
Mariana Teixeira de Carvalho
Mariana Teixeira de Carvalho is a Brazilian lawyer best known as the wife of U2 bassist Adam Clayton.
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D.
Vera Lúcia Cabreira
Vera Lúcia Cabreira was the wife of renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
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E.
Vânia Nonnenmacher
Vânia Nonnenmacher is a Brazilian woman best known as the mother of supermodel Gisele Bündchen.
- 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: Maria de Medeiros Target entity description: Maria de Medeiros is a Portuguese actress and filmmaker known internationally for her roles in independent and art-house films, including Quentin Tarantino’s "Pulp Fiction."
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A.
Maria Teresa Teixeira de Queiroz
Maria Teresa Teixeira de Queiroz was the wife of Marcelo Caetano, the last prime minister of Portugal’s Estado Novo regime.
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B.
Beatriz Pimentel
Beatriz Pimentel was a Spanish noblewoman best known as the mother of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, the powerful 3rd Duke of Alba and prominent military commander of the 16th century.
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C.
Mariana Teixeira de Carvalho
Mariana Teixeira de Carvalho is a Brazilian lawyer best known as the wife of U2 bassist Adam Clayton.
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D.
Vera Lúcia Cabreira
Vera Lúcia Cabreira was the wife of renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
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E.
Vânia Nonnenmacher
Vânia Nonnenmacher is a Brazilian woman best known as the mother of supermodel Gisele Bündchen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
ⓘ
film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ singer ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
French cinema
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Portuguese cinema ⓘ international cinema ⓘ |
| birthName |
Maria de Medeiros Esteves Vitorino de Almeida
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linked to:
Maria de Medeiros
|
| characterPortrayed |
Anaïs Nin in Henry & June
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linked to:
Anaïs Nin
Fabienne in Pulp Fiction ⓘ |
| citizenship | Portugal ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Portugal ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-08-19 ⓘ |
| directorOf | Capitães de Abril ⓘ |
| familyName | de Medeiros ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
ⓘ
film directing ⓘ music performance ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| filmIndustry |
European cinema
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art-house film ⓘ independent film ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Maria ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
art-house film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ independent film ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ |
| name | Maria de Medeiros ⓘ |
| nationality | Portuguese ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Capitães de Abril
ⓘ
Henry & June ⓘ Huevos de oro ⓘ Pulp Fiction ⓘ Três Irmãos ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| parent | António Victorino de Almeida ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lisbon ⓘ |
| subjectOf | European Film Awards recognition ⓘ |
| workedWith | Quentin Tarantino ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–present ⓘ |
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: Maria de Medeiros Description of subject: Maria de Medeiros is a Portuguese actress and filmmaker known internationally for her roles in independent and art-house films, including Quentin Tarantino’s "Pulp Fiction."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Maria de Medeiros
linked to: Maria de Medeiros