Nora McPhee
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Nora McPhee is the struggling single mother and schoolteacher at the heart of the 1983 comedy-drama film "Max Dugan Returns," whose life is upended by the sudden reappearance of her long-absent father.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nora McPhee canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7354834 — 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: Nora McPhee Context triple: [Max Dugan Returns, mainCharacter, Nora McPhee]
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A.
Moira Davidson
Moira Davidson is a central character in Nevil Shute’s post-apocalyptic novel "On the Beach," known for her poignant transformation from a carefree socialite to a woman confronting the end of the world with courage and emotional depth.
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B.
Lia McHugh
Lia McHugh is an American actress best known for her role as the Eternal Sprite in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film "Eternals."
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C.
Kate Nelligan
Kate Nelligan is a Canadian actress acclaimed for her work in film, television, and theatre, noted for her intense dramatic performances and multiple award nominations.
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D.
Colette McDermott
Colette McDermott is an American actress and the daughter of actor Dylan McDermott.
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E.
Sheila McKenna
Sheila McKenna is an actress known for her role in the television film "The Josephine Baker Story."
- 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: Nora McPhee Target entity description: Nora McPhee is the struggling single mother and schoolteacher at the heart of the 1983 comedy-drama film "Max Dugan Returns," whose life is upended by the sudden reappearance of her long-absent father.
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A.
Moira Davidson
Moira Davidson is a central character in Nevil Shute’s post-apocalyptic novel "On the Beach," known for her poignant transformation from a carefree socialite to a woman confronting the end of the world with courage and emotional depth.
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B.
Lia McHugh
Lia McHugh is an American actress best known for her role as the Eternal Sprite in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film "Eternals."
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C.
Kate Nelligan
Kate Nelligan is a Canadian actress acclaimed for her work in film, television, and theatre, noted for her intense dramatic performances and multiple award nominations.
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D.
Colette McDermott
Colette McDermott is an American actress and the daughter of actor Dylan McDermott.
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E.
Sheila McKenna
Sheila McKenna is an actress known for her role in the television film "The Josephine Baker Story."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Max Dugan Returns ⓘ |
| characterType | struggling single parent ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fictionalUniverse | Max Dugan Returns universe ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Max Dugan ⓘ |
| lifeEvent | life is upended by the sudden reappearance of her long-absent father ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | single mother ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | schoolteacher ⓘ |
| relativeType | daughter of Max Dugan ⓘ |
| workGenre | comedy-drama film ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1983 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Nora McPhee Description of subject: Nora McPhee is the struggling single mother and schoolteacher at the heart of the 1983 comedy-drama film "Max Dugan Returns," whose life is upended by the sudden reappearance of her long-absent father.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.