Freda MacDonald
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Freda MacDonald was the wife of British mystery novelist and screenwriter Philip MacDonald.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Freda MacDonald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10695050 — 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: Freda MacDonald Context triple: [Philip MacDonald, spouse, Freda MacDonald]
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A.
Freda Josephine McDonald
Freda Josephine McDonald, better known as Josephine Baker, was an American-born French entertainer, Resistance agent, and civil rights activist renowned for her groundbreaking performances and iconic status in 20th-century popular culture.
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B.
Marion MacInnis
Marion MacInnis was the wife of pioneering American electrical engineer and radio inventor Edwin H. Armstrong.
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C.
June Melville
June Melville was the first wife of English actor John Le Mesurier, known for her connection to his early personal life before his later fame in British television comedy.
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D.
Freda Wilson
Freda Wilson was the wife of Irish physicist and Nobel laureate Ernest Walton.
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E.
Frances Macdonald
Frances Macdonald was a prominent Scottish artist and designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her role in the Glasgow School and her distinctive contribution to the development of Art Nouveau.
- 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: Freda MacDonald Target entity description: Freda MacDonald was the wife of British mystery novelist and screenwriter Philip MacDonald.
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A.
Freda Josephine McDonald
Freda Josephine McDonald, better known as Josephine Baker, was an American-born French entertainer, Resistance agent, and civil rights activist renowned for her groundbreaking performances and iconic status in 20th-century popular culture.
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B.
Marion MacInnis
Marion MacInnis was the wife of pioneering American electrical engineer and radio inventor Edwin H. Armstrong.
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C.
June Melville
June Melville was the first wife of English actor John Le Mesurier, known for her connection to his early personal life before his later fame in British television comedy.
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D.
Freda Wilson
Freda Wilson was the wife of Irish physicist and Nobel laureate Ernest Walton.
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E.
Frances Macdonald
Frances Macdonald was a prominent Scottish artist and designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her role in the Glasgow School and her distinctive contribution to the development of Art Nouveau.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (4)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableRelation | wife of British mystery novelist and screenwriter Philip MacDonald ⓘ |
| spouse | Philip MacDonald ⓘ |
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: Freda MacDonald Description of subject: Freda MacDonald was the wife of British mystery novelist and screenwriter Philip MacDonald.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.