Joan Drane
E1050418
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Joan Drane was the wife of American actor Lee Van Cleef, known for his roles in classic Western films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joan Drane canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10856035 — 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 Drane Context triple: [Lee Van Cleef, spouse, Joan Drane]
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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 Haverty
Joan Haverty was an American woman best known as the second wife of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac and the mother of his only acknowledged child, Jan Kerouac.
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C.
Joan Foster
Joan Foster is the complex, identity-shifting protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "Lady Oracle," known for her secret life as a gothic romance writer and her struggle to escape her past.
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D.
Joan Towne
Joan Towne was a 17th-century New England woman known primarily as the mother of Sarah Towne Cloyce, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Carole Eastman
Carole Eastman was an American screenwriter best known for her incisive character-driven work in 1970s New Hollywood cinema, including the film "Five Easy Pieces."
- 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 Drane Target entity description: Joan Drane was the wife of American actor Lee Van Cleef, known for his roles in classic Western films.
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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 Haverty
Joan Haverty was an American woman best known as the second wife of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac and the mother of his only acknowledged child, Jan Kerouac.
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C.
Joan Foster
Joan Foster is the complex, identity-shifting protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "Lady Oracle," known for her secret life as a gothic romance writer and her struggle to escape her past.
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D.
Joan Towne
Joan Towne was a 17th-century New England woman known primarily as the mother of Sarah Towne Cloyce, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Carole Eastman
Carole Eastman was an American screenwriter best known for her incisive character-driven work in 1970s New Hollywood cinema, including the film "Five Easy Pieces."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.