Madeline Foy
E385913
Madeline Foy was a member of the Foy family of early 20th-century American entertainers, known for their work in vaudeville and film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madeline Foy canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3508817 — 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: Madeline Foy Context triple: [Bryan Foy, sibling, Madeline Foy]
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A.
Florence McFadden
Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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B.
Frances Dee
Frances Dee was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her poised, refined screen presence in dramas and literary adaptations.
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C.
Madeline Gleason
Madeline Gleason was an American poet and organizer known for helping launch the San Francisco poetry scene, including organizing one of the first major public poetry festivals in the city.
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D.
Maria Cooley
Maria Cooley was the wife of American landscape painter Jasper Francis Cropsey, a prominent figure of the Hudson River School.
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E.
Florence Ryerson
Florence Ryerson was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay for the classic 1939 film adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz."
- 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: Madeline Foy Target entity description: Madeline Foy was a member of the Foy family of early 20th-century American entertainers, known for their work in vaudeville and film.
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A.
Florence McFadden
Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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B.
Frances Dee
Frances Dee was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her poised, refined screen presence in dramas and literary adaptations.
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C.
Madeline Gleason
Madeline Gleason was an American poet and organizer known for helping launch the San Francisco poetry scene, including organizing one of the first major public poetry festivals in the city.
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D.
Maria Cooley
Maria Cooley was the wife of American landscape painter Jasper Francis Cropsey, a prominent figure of the Hudson River School.
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E.
Florence Ryerson
Florence Ryerson was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay for the classic 1939 film adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Foy ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | performing arts ⓘ |
| genre | vaudeville ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Foy family
ⓘ
linked to:
The Foy Family
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| notableFor |
work in early American film
ⓘ
work in vaudeville ⓘ |
| occupation |
entertainer
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| partOf | early 20th-century American entertainment ⓘ |
| sibling | member of the Foy family of entertainers ⓘ |
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: Madeline Foy Description of subject: Madeline Foy was a member of the Foy family of early 20th-century American entertainers, known for their work in vaudeville and film.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.