Margaret Johnston
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Margaret Johnston was a British actress known for her work on stage and in films during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margaret Johnston canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5556069 — 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: Margaret Johnston Context triple: [Albert Parker, spouse, Margaret Johnston]
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A.
Margaret Durkan
Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
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B.
Margaret Wilson
Margaret Wilson was a young Scottish Covenanter martyr famously executed by drowning in 1685 for refusing to renounce her Presbyterian faith during the period known as the Killing Times.
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C.
Margaret Wade
Margaret Wade was a pioneering American women’s basketball coach, best known for leading Delta State University to multiple national championships in the 1970s and for having the Wade Trophy, women’s basketball’s top collegiate player award, named in her honor.
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D.
Margaret Gibson
Margaret Gibson was the wife of American actor Noah Beery, associated with the early Hollywood film era.
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E.
Margaret Gamage
Margaret Gamage was a 16th-century Welsh noblewoman of the Gamage family who became Countess of Nottingham through her marriage into the English Howard dynasty.
- 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: Margaret Johnston Target entity description: Margaret Johnston was a British actress known for her work on stage and in films during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Margaret Durkan
Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
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B.
Margaret Wilson
Margaret Wilson was a young Scottish Covenanter martyr famously executed by drowning in 1685 for refusing to renounce her Presbyterian faith during the period known as the Killing Times.
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C.
Margaret Wade
Margaret Wade was a pioneering American women’s basketball coach, best known for leading Delta State University to multiple national championships in the 1970s and for having the Wade Trophy, women’s basketball’s top collegiate player award, named in her honor.
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D.
Margaret Gibson
Margaret Gibson was the wife of American actor Noah Beery, associated with the early Hollywood film era.
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E.
Margaret Gamage
Margaret Gamage was a 16th-century Welsh noblewoman of the Gamage family who became Countess of Nottingham through her marriage into the English Howard dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Australia
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnston ⓘ |
| givenName | Margaret ⓘ |
| name | Margaret Johnston ⓘ |
| notableFor |
British film acting
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British stage acting ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Canterbury Tale
ⓘ
Night and the City ⓘ The Barretts of Wimpole Street ⓘ
linked to:
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
The Constant Husband ⓘ The Franchise Affair ⓘ The Harassed Hero ⓘ The Magic Box ⓘ The Rake’s Progress ⓘ
linked to:
The Rake's Progress
The Small Back Room ⓘ The Winslow Boy ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: Margaret Johnston Description of subject: Margaret Johnston was a British actress known for her work on stage and in films during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.