May-Alice Culhane
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May-Alice Culhane is the paralyzed soap opera actress at the center of the 1992 drama film "Passion Fish," whose life is upended and gradually transformed after she returns to her Louisiana hometown.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| May-Alice Culhane canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6082063 — 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: May-Alice Culhane Context triple: [Mary McDonnell, portrayed, May-Alice Culhane]
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A.
Maud Sheehan
Maud Sheehan was the wife of Irish politician and Sinn Féin founder Arthur Griffith.
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B.
Maureen Earl
Maureen Earl is best known as the wife of American novelist Clifford Irving, who gained notoriety for his fraudulent "autobiography" of Howard Hughes.
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C.
Eileen Shearer
Eileen Shearer is a political figure best known for founding the American Independent Party in the United States.
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D.
Eileen Paisley
Eileen Paisley is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as a Democratic Unionist Party representative and is known as the wife of DUP founder and former First Minister Ian Paisley.
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E.
Maureen Swanson
Maureen Swanson was a British actress active in the 1950s, known for her roles in comedy and drama films before later becoming the Countess of Dudley.
- 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: May-Alice Culhane Target entity description: May-Alice Culhane is the paralyzed soap opera actress at the center of the 1992 drama film "Passion Fish," whose life is upended and gradually transformed after she returns to her Louisiana hometown.
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A.
Maud Sheehan
Maud Sheehan was the wife of Irish politician and Sinn Féin founder Arthur Griffith.
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B.
Maureen Earl
Maureen Earl is best known as the wife of American novelist Clifford Irving, who gained notoriety for his fraudulent "autobiography" of Howard Hughes.
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C.
Eileen Shearer
Eileen Shearer is a political figure best known for founding the American Independent Party in the United States.
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D.
Eileen Paisley
Eileen Paisley is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as a Democratic Unionist Party representative and is known as the wife of DUP founder and former First Minister Ian Paisley.
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E.
Maureen Swanson
Maureen Swanson was a British actress active in the 1950s, known for her roles in comedy and drama films before later becoming the Countess of Dudley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Passion Fish ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
friendship and caregiving
ⓘ
healing and self-acceptance ⓘ |
| characterArc | undergoes personal transformation after returning to hometown ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| fictionalUniverse | Passion Fish ⓘ |
| genreContext | independent cinema ⓘ |
| hasDisability | paralysis ⓘ |
| lifeEvent | career interrupted by accident leading to paralysis ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocusOf | Passion Fish ⓘ |
| occupation | soap opera actress ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Louisiana ⓘ |
| portrayedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| returnsTo | Louisiana hometown ⓘ |
| storyRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | drama film ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1992 ⓘ |
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: May-Alice Culhane Description of subject: May-Alice Culhane is the paralyzed soap opera actress at the center of the 1992 drama film "Passion Fish," whose life is upended and gradually transformed after she returns to her Louisiana hometown.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.