Mary Astor
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Mary Astor was an American actress best known for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Great Lie," for which she won an Academy Award.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Astor canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1017480 — 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: Mary Astor Context triple: [Meet Me in St. Louis, castMember, Mary Astor]
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A.
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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B.
Josephine Dunn
Josephine Dunn was an American film and stage actress of the late silent and early sound era, known for her roles in musical and dramatic pictures of the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Nina Foch
Nina Foch was a Dutch-born American actress known for her poised, often aristocratic roles in classic Hollywood films and for her work as a respected acting teacher.
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D.
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor was an American film actress best known as a major star of the silent and early sound eras, including her acclaimed role in the original "A Star Is Born."
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E.
Barbara Hutton
Barbara Hutton was an American socialite and Woolworth heiress famed for her immense fortune, lavish lifestyle, and highly publicized series of marriages and personal tragedies.
- 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: Mary Astor Target entity description: Mary Astor was an American actress best known for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Great Lie," for which she won an Academy Award.
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A.
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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B.
Josephine Dunn
Josephine Dunn was an American film and stage actress of the late silent and early sound era, known for her roles in musical and dramatic pictures of the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Nina Foch
Nina Foch was a Dutch-born American actress known for her poised, often aristocratic roles in classic Hollywood films and for her work as a respected acting teacher.
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D.
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor was an American film actress best known as a major star of the silent and early sound eras, including her acclaimed role in the original "A Star Is Born."
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E.
Barbara Hutton
Barbara Hutton was an American socialite and Woolworth heiress famed for her immense fortune, lavish lifestyle, and highly publicized series of marriages and personal tragedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Mary Astor Description of subject: Mary Astor was an American actress best known for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Great Lie," for which she won an Academy Award.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)