Maurice Cleary
E652852
Maurice Cleary was the husband of American silent film actress May McAvoy, known primarily in relation to her career in early Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maurice Cleary canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7076231 — 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: Maurice Cleary Context triple: [May McAvoy, spouse, Maurice Cleary]
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A.
Wilfred Clarke
Wilfred Clarke was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the extended Booth theatrical family through his mother, Asia Booth Clarke.
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B.
Kenneth Muir
Kenneth Muir was a prominent British literary scholar and Shakespearean critic known for his influential editions and analyses of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
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C.
Clarence Geldart
Clarence Geldart was a Canadian-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
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D.
Maurice Starr
Maurice Starr is an American music producer and songwriter best known for creating and managing successful boy bands such as New Kids on the Block and New Edition.
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E.
Pierre Glendinning
Pierre Glendinning is the conflicted young aristocratic hero of Herman Melville’s novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," whose idealism and psychological turmoil drive the book’s exploration of identity, morality, and madness.
- 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: Maurice Cleary Target entity description: Maurice Cleary was the husband of American silent film actress May McAvoy, known primarily in relation to her career in early Hollywood cinema.
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A.
Wilfred Clarke
Wilfred Clarke was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the extended Booth theatrical family through his mother, Asia Booth Clarke.
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B.
Kenneth Muir
Kenneth Muir was a prominent British literary scholar and Shakespearean critic known for his influential editions and analyses of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
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C.
Clarence Geldart
Clarence Geldart was a Canadian-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
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D.
Maurice Starr
Maurice Starr is an American music producer and songwriter best known for creating and managing successful boy bands such as New Kids on the Block and New Edition.
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E.
Pierre Glendinning
Pierre Glendinning is the conflicted young aristocratic hero of Herman Melville’s novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," whose idealism and psychological turmoil drive the book’s exploration of identity, morality, and madness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to silent film actress May McAvoy ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| spouse |
Maurice Cleary
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May McAvoy ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 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: Maurice Cleary Description of subject: Maurice Cleary was the husband of American silent film actress May McAvoy, known primarily in relation to her career in early Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Maurice Cleary