Elise McKenna
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Elise McKenna is the fictional early-20th-century stage actress who serves as the central love interest in the time-travel romance film "Somewhere in Time."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elise McKenna canonical | 2 |
| Elise McKenna (novel character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6910518 — 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: Elise McKenna Context triple: [Somewhere in Time, mainCharacter, Elise McKenna]
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A.
Grace McKagan
Grace McKagan is an American singer and model best known as the frontwoman of the rock band The Pink Slips and the daughter of Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan.
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B.
Alix Madigan
Alix Madigan is an American film producer best known for her work on acclaimed independent films, including the Oscar-nominated drama "Winter’s Bone."
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C.
Elyse Knox
Elyse Knox was an American actress, model, and fashion designer best known for her film roles in the 1940s and as the mother of actress and painter Kristin Harmon.
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D.
Ellie Cavanaugh
Ellie Cavanaugh is the determined and resilient protagonist of Mary Higgins Clark’s suspense novel "Daddy’s Little Girl," who seeks justice for her murdered sister years after the crime.
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E.
Lizzie Connolly
Lizzie Connolly is a character in Jack London’s novel "Martin Eden," representing one of the women who influence the protagonist’s emotional and social development.
- 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: Elise McKenna Target entity description: Elise McKenna is the fictional early-20th-century stage actress who serves as the central love interest in the time-travel romance film "Somewhere in Time."
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A.
Grace McKagan
Grace McKagan is an American singer and model best known as the frontwoman of the rock band The Pink Slips and the daughter of Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan.
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B.
Alix Madigan
Alix Madigan is an American film producer best known for her work on acclaimed independent films, including the Oscar-nominated drama "Winter’s Bone."
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C.
Elyse Knox
Elyse Knox was an American actress, model, and fashion designer best known for her film roles in the 1940s and as the mother of actress and painter Kristin Harmon.
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D.
Ellie Cavanaugh
Ellie Cavanaugh is the determined and resilient protagonist of Mary Higgins Clark’s suspense novel "Daddy’s Little Girl," who seeks justice for her murdered sister years after the crime.
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E.
Lizzie Connolly
Lizzie Connolly is a character in Jack London’s novel "Martin Eden," representing one of the women who influence the protagonist’s emotional and social development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Bid Time Return
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Somewhere in Time ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
time travel
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tragic romance ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Grand Hotel (fictionalized Mackinac Island hotel)
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linked to:
Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan
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| basedOn |
Elise McKenna (novel character)
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linked to:
Elise McKenna
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| centralRoleIn | Somewhere in Time ⓘ |
| characterArc | falls in love with a man from the future ⓘ |
| characterType | romantic heroine ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Richard Matheson ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Somewhere in Time (film)
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linked to:
Somewhere in Time
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| firstAppearance | Bid Time Return (1975 novel) ⓘ |
| firstFilmAppearance |
Somewhere in Time (1980 film)
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linked to:
Somewhere in Time
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| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
romance ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loveInterestOf | Richard Collier ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | love interest ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the object of a time‑transcending romance ⓘ |
| notableScene | portrait that inspires Richard Collier to travel back in time ⓘ |
| occupation | stage actress ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jane Seymour ⓘ |
| relationship | romantic relationship with Richard Collier ⓘ |
| setting |
Mackinac Island, Michigan (fictionalized)
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linked to:
Mackinac Island
|
| timePeriod | early 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: Elise McKenna Description of subject: Elise McKenna is the fictional early-20th-century stage actress who serves as the central love interest in the time-travel romance film "Somewhere in Time."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.