Dorothy Lamour
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Dorothy Lamour was an American actress and singer best known for her roles in the "Road to..." comedy films alongside Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorothy Lamour canonical | 41 |
| Donna Latour – Dorothy Lamour | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T984177 — 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 Lamour Context triple: [The Greatest Show on Earth (1952 film), stars, Dorothy Lamour]
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A.
Billie Dove
Billie Dove was a popular American silent film actress of the 1920s, celebrated for her beauty and leading roles in romantic and adventure films.
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B.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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C.
Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse was an American dancer and actress renowned for her dazzling, technically precise performances in classic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
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D.
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers was an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her iconic film musicals with Fred Astaire during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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E.
Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard was a celebrated American film actress of the 1930s, best known for her sharp wit and leading roles in classic screwball comedies.
- 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 Lamour Target entity description: Dorothy Lamour was an American actress and singer best known for her roles in the "Road to..." comedy films alongside Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
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A.
Billie Dove
Billie Dove was a popular American silent film actress of the 1920s, celebrated for her beauty and leading roles in romantic and adventure films.
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B.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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C.
Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse was an American dancer and actress renowned for her dazzling, technically precise performances in classic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
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D.
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers was an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her iconic film musicals with Fred Astaire during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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E.
Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard was a celebrated American film actress of the 1930s, best known for her sharp wit and leading roles in classic screwball comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Dorothy Lamour Description of subject: Dorothy Lamour was an American actress and singer best known for her roles in the "Road to..." comedy films alongside Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States
linked to: Dorothy Lamour
subject linked to:
Eternal Valley Memorial Park, Newhall, California