Dorothy West
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Dorothy West was a silent film actress active in early American cinema, appearing in several short films during the 1900s and 1910s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy West canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20296210 — 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 West Context triple: [The Adventures of Dollie, hasCastMember, Dorothy West]
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A.
Ann Petry
Ann Petry was an influential American novelist and short story writer best known for her 1946 novel "The Street," which powerfully depicted African American urban life and became the first book by a Black woman to sell over a million copies.
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B.
Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen was a pioneering 20th-century American writer and feminist whose powerful depictions of working-class and women’s lives made her a key figure in Jewish American and social realist literature.
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C.
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an influential Harlem Renaissance novelist, poet, and editor whose work explored the lives and inner worlds of Black middle-class Americans.
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D.
Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist known for her realistic depictions of life in the American South and for winning the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "In This Our Life."
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E.
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor was an American novelist acclaimed for her powerful portrayals of African American women’s lives and communities in works such as "The Women of Brewster Place."
- 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 West Target entity description: Dorothy West was a silent film actress active in early American cinema, appearing in several short films during the 1900s and 1910s.
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A.
Ann Petry
Ann Petry was an influential American novelist and short story writer best known for her 1946 novel "The Street," which powerfully depicted African American urban life and became the first book by a Black woman to sell over a million copies.
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B.
Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen was a pioneering 20th-century American writer and feminist whose powerful depictions of working-class and women’s lives made her a key figure in Jewish American and social realist literature.
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C.
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an influential Harlem Renaissance novelist, poet, and editor whose work explored the lives and inner worlds of Black middle-class Americans.
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D.
Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist known for her realistic depictions of life in the American South and for winning the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "In This Our Life."
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E.
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor was an American novelist acclaimed for her powerful portrayals of African American women’s lives and communities in works such as "The Women of Brewster Place."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.