Joan Malin
E772008
Joan Malin was the first wife of English actor John Le Mesurier, known primarily in relation to his early personal life before his later, more public marriages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joan Malin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8964228 — 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: Joan Malin Context triple: [John Le Mesurier, spouse, Joan Malin]
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A.
Joan Murray
Joan Murray was the wife of famed British World War II flying ace and double amputee Sir Douglas Bader.
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B.
Joan Barclay
Joan Barclay was an American film actress known for her numerous roles in low-budget Westerns and B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Joan Alison
Joan Alison was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1942 film "Casablanca."
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D.
Joanne Herring
Joanne Herring is a Houston socialite, political activist, and businesswoman known for her influential role in supporting U.S. involvement with Afghan resistance fighters during the Soviet–Afghan War.
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E.
Joan Goushill
Joan Goushill was an English noblewoman of the late medieval period, notable as the mother of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, and for her connections to prominent aristocratic families.
- 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: Joan Malin Target entity description: Joan Malin was the first wife of English actor John Le Mesurier, known primarily in relation to his early personal life before his later, more public marriages.
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A.
Joan Murray
Joan Murray was the wife of famed British World War II flying ace and double amputee Sir Douglas Bader.
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B.
Joan Barclay
Joan Barclay was an American film actress known for her numerous roles in low-budget Westerns and B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Joan Alison
Joan Alison was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1942 film "Casablanca."
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D.
Joanne Herring
Joanne Herring is a Houston socialite, political activist, and businesswoman known for her influential role in supporting U.S. involvement with Afghan resistance fighters during the Soviet–Afghan War.
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E.
Joan Goushill
Joan Goushill was an English noblewoman of the late medieval period, notable as the mother of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, and for her connections to prominent aristocratic families.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | comedy acting ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of John Le Mesurier ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dad's Army
ⓘ
linked to:
Dad's Army (TV series)
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| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | John Le Mesurier early personal life ⓘ |
| spouse |
Joan Malin
ⓘ
John Le Mesurier ⓘ |
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: Joan Malin Description of subject: Joan Malin was the first wife of English actor John Le Mesurier, known primarily in relation to his early personal life before his later, more public marriages.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Joan Malin