Edna Mae McCauley
E489838
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edna Mae McCauley canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4873593 — 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: Edna Mae McCauley Context triple: [Resurrection (1980 film), character, Edna Mae McCauley]
-
A.
Florence Eldridge
Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
-
B.
Lucille Campbell Green
Lucille Campbell Green was an educator and civil rights activist best known as the wife and partner of prominent labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
-
C.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
-
D.
Mildred Thompson
Mildred Thompson was the wife of civil rights leader James Forman, associated with the mid-20th-century American civil rights movement.
-
E.
Marion Brown
Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the avant-garde and free jazz movements of the 1960s and beyond.
- 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: Edna Mae McCauley Target entity description: Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
-
A.
Florence Eldridge
Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
-
B.
Lucille Campbell Green
Lucille Campbell Green was an educator and civil rights activist best known as the wife and partner of prominent labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
-
C.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
-
D.
Mildred Thompson
Mildred Thompson was the wife of civil rights leader James Forman, associated with the mid-20th-century American civil rights movement.
-
E.
Marion Brown
Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the avant-garde and free jazz movements of the 1960s and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Resurrection ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
faith
ⓘ
healing ⓘ life after death ⓘ love ⓘ miracles ⓘ religion ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ skepticism ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Resurrection (1980 film) ⓘ |
| experiences | social backlash due to healing powers ⓘ |
| facesConflictWith | organized religion leaders ⓘ |
| featuredInYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| filmTitle | Resurrection ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
empathic understanding of others
ⓘ
laying on of hands healing ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Edna Mae McCauley ⓘ |
| hasPower |
healing others
ⓘ
miraculous healing ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | faith healer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ellen Burstyn ⓘ |
| setInWorkLocation | rural United States ⓘ |
| storyBeginsWith | automobile accident ⓘ |
| survives | near-fatal accident ⓘ |
| undergoes | near-death experience ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | drama film ⓘ |
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: Edna Mae McCauley Description of subject: Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.