Ursula Parrott
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Ursula Parrott was an American writer best known for her popular 1929 novel "Ex-Wife," which explored modern marriage and divorce and was adapted into the Oscar-winning film "The Divorcee" (1930).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ursula Parrott canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12833979 — 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: Ursula Parrott Context triple: [The Divorcee (1930), basedOnAuthor, Ursula Parrott]
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Mary Louisa Boit
Mary Louisa Boit was one of the four Boit sisters immortalized as a child in John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit," a landmark of 19th-century portraiture.
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B.
Georgina Ferry
Georgina Ferry is a British science writer and biographer known for her works on prominent scientists and the history of science.
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C.
Ellen Church
Ellen Church was an American nurse and aviation pioneer recognized as the world’s first female flight attendant.
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Blanche Barton
Blanche Barton is an American occultist and author best known for her leadership role in the Church of Satan and her writings on Satanism.
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E.
Mary Cecilia Rogers
Mary Cecilia Rogers was a 19th-century New York cigar-store clerk whose unsolved 1841 murder became a national sensation and inspired Edgar Allan Poe’s detective story "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt."
- 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: Ursula Parrott Target entity description: Ursula Parrott was an American writer best known for her popular 1929 novel "Ex-Wife," which explored modern marriage and divorce and was adapted into the Oscar-winning film "The Divorcee" (1930).
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A.
Mary Louisa Boit
Mary Louisa Boit was one of the four Boit sisters immortalized as a child in John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit," a landmark of 19th-century portraiture.
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B.
Georgina Ferry
Georgina Ferry is a British science writer and biographer known for her works on prominent scientists and the history of science.
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C.
Ellen Church
Ellen Church was an American nurse and aviation pioneer recognized as the world’s first female flight attendant.
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D.
Blanche Barton
Blanche Barton is an American occultist and author best known for her leadership role in the Church of Satan and her writings on Satanism.
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E.
Mary Cecilia Rogers
Mary Cecilia Rogers was a 19th-century New York cigar-store clerk whose unsolved 1841 murder became a national sensation and inspired Edgar Allan Poe’s detective story "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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human ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| author | Ursula Parrott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Actress
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Academy Award for Best Writing, Adaptation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ex-Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Radcliffe College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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popular fiction ⓘ romantic fiction ⓘ romantic fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Divorcee
NERFINISHED
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The Divorcee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Marc Parrott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | popular representations of divorce in American fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
divorce
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marriage ⓘ women’s emancipation ⓘ |
| movement | Jazz Age literature ⓘ |
| notableFor | depicting changing sexual mores in early 20th-century America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ex-Wife
NERFINISHED
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Next Time We Live NERFINISHED ⓘ Strangers May Kiss NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ex-Wife (short stories collection, variant titles) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gay Divorcee (story basis/related work) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Office Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
1929
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1930 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charles T. Greenwood
NERFINISHED
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John Cuddihy NERFINISHED ⓘ John Wildberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Lindesay Marc Parrott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workSubject |
divorce
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modern marriage ⓘ urban romance ⓘ women’s independence ⓘ |
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: Ursula Parrott Description of subject: Ursula Parrott was an American writer best known for her popular 1929 novel "Ex-Wife," which explored modern marriage and divorce and was adapted into the Oscar-winning film "The Divorcee" (1930).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.