Florence Bates
E201997
Florence Bates was an American character actress known for her memorable supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Florence Bates canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1678909 — 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: Florence Bates Context triple: [Rebecca (1940 film), starring, Florence Bates]
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A.
Ellen Church
Ellen Church was an American nurse and aviation pioneer recognized as the world’s first female flight attendant.
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B.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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C.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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D.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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E.
Katherine Tupper Brown
Katherine Tupper Brown was an American woman best known as the wife of U.S. Army General and statesman George C. Marshall, supporting his military and diplomatic career during and after World War II.
- 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: Florence Bates Target entity description: Florence Bates was an American character actress known for her memorable supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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A.
Ellen Church
Ellen Church was an American nurse and aviation pioneer recognized as the world’s first female flight attendant.
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B.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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C.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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D.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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E.
Katherine Tupper Brown
Katherine Tupper Brown was an American woman best known as the wife of U.S. Army General and statesman George C. Marshall, supporting his military and diplomatic career during and after World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Florence Bates Description of subject: Florence Bates was an American character actress known for her memorable supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Florence Rabe
subject linked to:
My Dear Secretary (1948 film)
subject linked to:
Love Crazy (1941 film)
subject linked to:
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty