Vivian Sternwood
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Vivian Sternwood is one of the central characters in Raymond Chandler’s novel "The Big Sleep," known as the sophisticated and enigmatic elder daughter of the wealthy Sternwood family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vivian Sternwood canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16329946 — 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: Vivian Sternwood Context triple: [Carmen Sternwood, hasRelative, Vivian Sternwood]
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A.
Carmen Sternwood
Carmen Sternwood is a flirtatious and troubled young heiress whose reckless behavior entangles private detective Philip Marlowe in a complex web of crime and corruption in the classic film noir "The Big Sleep."
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B.
Violet Venable
Violet Venable is a wealthy, domineering New Orleans matriarch in Tennessee Williams' play "Suddenly, Last Summer," obsessed with preserving the memory of her dead son at any cost.
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C.
Kate Croy
Kate Croy is a complex, ambitious young woman in Henry James's novel "The Wings of the Dove," whose moral compromises and emotional conflicts drive the story's central drama.
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D.
Evelyn Venable
Evelyn Venable was an American actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known as the original visual model for the Columbia Pictures Torch Lady and for voicing the Blue Fairy in Disney’s "Pinocchio."
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E.
Leslie Landon
Leslie Landon is an American former actress best known for her role as schoolteacher Etta Plum on the television series "Little House on the Prairie."
- 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: Vivian Sternwood Target entity description: Vivian Sternwood is one of the central characters in Raymond Chandler’s novel "The Big Sleep," known as the sophisticated and enigmatic elder daughter of the wealthy Sternwood family.
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A.
Carmen Sternwood
Carmen Sternwood is a flirtatious and troubled young heiress whose reckless behavior entangles private detective Philip Marlowe in a complex web of crime and corruption in the classic film noir "The Big Sleep."
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B.
Violet Venable
Violet Venable is a wealthy, domineering New Orleans matriarch in Tennessee Williams' play "Suddenly, Last Summer," obsessed with preserving the memory of her dead son at any cost.
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C.
Kate Croy
Kate Croy is a complex, ambitious young woman in Henry James's novel "The Wings of the Dove," whose moral compromises and emotional conflicts drive the story's central drama.
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D.
Evelyn Venable
Evelyn Venable was an American actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known as the original visual model for the Columbia Pictures Torch Lady and for voicing the Blue Fairy in Disney’s "Pinocchio."
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E.
Leslie Landon
Leslie Landon is an American former actress best known for her role as schoolteacher Etta Plum on the television series "Little House on the Prairie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.