Dorothy Fay Hammerton
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Dorothy Fay Hammerton, better known by her stage name Fay Holden, was a British-born actress recognized for her maternal roles in classic Hollywood films, particularly as Mrs. Hardy in the Andy Hardy series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy Fay Hammerton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10656813 — 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: Dorothy Fay Hammerton Context triple: [Fay Holden, alsoKnownAs, Dorothy Fay Hammerton]
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A.
Dorothy Evelyn Whittall
Dorothy Evelyn Whittall was the mother of British speed record breaker Donald Campbell and the wife of famed land and water speed pioneer Sir Malcolm Campbell.
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B.
Dorothy Cumming
Dorothy Cumming was an Australian-born silent film actress best known for her role as the Virgin Mary in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 biblical epic "The King of Kings."
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C.
Dorothy Cecil
Dorothy Cecil was a member of the prominent Cecil family of the English nobility, known primarily as a daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter.
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D.
Dorothy Kingsley
Dorothy Kingsley was an American screenwriter known for her work on classic mid-20th-century Hollywood musicals and comedies.
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E.
Dorothy Webster
Dorothy Webster was the wife of legendary animator and director Chuck Jones, known primarily in relation to his personal life.
- 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: Dorothy Fay Hammerton Target entity description: Dorothy Fay Hammerton, better known by her stage name Fay Holden, was a British-born actress recognized for her maternal roles in classic Hollywood films, particularly as Mrs. Hardy in the Andy Hardy series.
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A.
Dorothy Evelyn Whittall
Dorothy Evelyn Whittall was the mother of British speed record breaker Donald Campbell and the wife of famed land and water speed pioneer Sir Malcolm Campbell.
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B.
Dorothy Cumming
Dorothy Cumming was an Australian-born silent film actress best known for her role as the Virgin Mary in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 biblical epic "The King of Kings."
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C.
Dorothy Cecil
Dorothy Cecil was a member of the prominent Cecil family of the English nobility, known primarily as a daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter.
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D.
Dorothy Kingsley
Dorothy Kingsley was an American screenwriter known for her work on classic mid-20th-century Hollywood musicals and comedies.
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E.
Dorothy Webster
Dorothy Webster was the wife of legendary animator and director Chuck Jones, known primarily in relation to his personal life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British emigrant to the United States
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Fay Holden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Dorothy Fay Hammerton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1893-09-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1973-06-23 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| genre | classic Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | maternal roles in Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Emily Hardy
NERFINISHED
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Mrs. Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Andy Hardy film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| partOf | Golden Age of Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Birmingham, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | mother of Andy Hardy ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| series | Andy Hardy series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | David Clyde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Fay Holden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Dorothy Fay Hammerton Description of subject: Dorothy Fay Hammerton, better known by her stage name Fay Holden, was a British-born actress recognized for her maternal roles in classic Hollywood films, particularly as Mrs. Hardy in the Andy Hardy series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.