Shearer family
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Hollywood family
Hollywood star
film actress
film dynasty
film producer
film technician
sound engineer
writer
The Shearer family is a prominent Hollywood dynasty best known for including legendary actress Norma Shearer and her descendants, who have been influential in the American film industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shearer family canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13098292 — 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: Shearer family Context triple: [Irving Thalberg Jr., notableFamily, Shearer family]
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A.
Lesher family
The Lesher family is a prominent philanthropic family known for its significant contributions to arts and culture in the Walnut Creek, California area.
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B.
Seiler family
The Seiler family is a prominent family known for its long-standing stewardship and management of the University of Georgia’s beloved English bulldog mascot, Uga.
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C.
Tillerman family
The Tillerman family is the central group of siblings and their mother whose struggles and resilience are chronicled in Cynthia Voigt’s acclaimed series of young adult novels.
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D.
Dunbar family
The Dunbar family is a historic Scottish noble lineage prominent in medieval politics and landholding, particularly through its association with the Earls of March.
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E.
Slater family
The Slater family was a prominent industrialist dynasty in early American textile manufacturing, instrumental in establishing and expanding mill villages in New England.
- 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: Shearer family Target entity description: The Shearer family is a prominent Hollywood dynasty best known for including legendary actress Norma Shearer and her descendants, who have been influential in the American film industry.
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A.
Lesher family
The Lesher family is a prominent philanthropic family known for its significant contributions to arts and culture in the Walnut Creek, California area.
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B.
Seiler family
The Seiler family is a prominent family known for its long-standing stewardship and management of the University of Georgia’s beloved English bulldog mascot, Uga.
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C.
Tillerman family
The Tillerman family is the central group of siblings and their mother whose struggles and resilience are chronicled in Cynthia Voigt’s acclaimed series of young adult novels.
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D.
Dunbar family
The Dunbar family is a historic Scottish noble lineage prominent in medieval politics and landholding, particularly through its association with the Earls of March.
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E.
Slater family
The Slater family is a prominent and long-running fictional family in the British soap opera EastEnders, known for their dramatic storylines and strong matriarchal characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hollywood family
ⓘ
Hollywood star ⓘ film actress ⓘ film actress ⓘ film dynasty ⓘ film producer ⓘ film technician ⓘ sound engineer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Actress
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ Academy Award for Technical Achievement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employer |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
ⓘ
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Hollywood cinema
ⓘ
film industry ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Shearer family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shearer family NERFINISHED ⓘ Shearer family NERFINISHED ⓘ Shearer family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acting
ⓘ
contributions to American film ⓘ film technology ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Athole Shearer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Douglas Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ Norma Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Free Soul
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marie Antoinette NERFINISHED ⓘ The Divorcee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
actress ⓘ audio engineer ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| parent |
Irving Thalberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Norma Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentOf | Irving Thalberg Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Athole Shearer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Athole Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ Douglas Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ Douglas Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ Norma Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ Norma Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Irving Thalberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Norma Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Shearer family Description of subject: The Shearer family is a prominent Hollywood dynasty best known for including legendary actress Norma Shearer and her descendants, who have been influential in the American film industry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.