Nancy Zala
E211074
Nancy Zala was the wife of American actor and director Howard Da Silva.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nancy Zala canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1029086 — 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: Nancy Zala Context triple: [Howard Da Silva, spouse, Nancy Zala]
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A.
Nancy Barbato
Nancy Barbato was the first wife of singer Frank Sinatra and the mother of their three children, including entertainer Nancy Sinatra.
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B.
Yvonne Zima
Yvonne Zima is an American actress known for her work as a child performer in films and television, including notable roles in 1990s thrillers and popular TV dramas.
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C.
Elizabeth Roboz
Elizabeth Roboz was a Hungarian-American neurobiologist and biochemist known for her research on brain chemistry and her marriage to Hans Albert Einstein, the son of Albert Einstein.
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D.
Judith Noel
Judith Noel was an English aristocrat and heiress of the Noel family, notable as the mother of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
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E.
Colleen Sostorics
Colleen Sostorics is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman and three-time Olympic gold medallist who starred with the national women’s team.
- 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: Nancy Zala Target entity description: Nancy Zala was the wife of American actor and director Howard Da Silva.
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A.
Nancy Barbato
Nancy Barbato was the first wife of singer Frank Sinatra and the mother of their three children, including entertainer Nancy Sinatra.
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B.
Yvonne Zima
Yvonne Zima is an American actress known for her work as a child performer in films and television, including notable roles in 1990s thrillers and popular TV dramas.
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C.
Elizabeth Roboz
Elizabeth Roboz was a Hungarian-American neurobiologist and biochemist known for her research on brain chemistry and her marriage to Hans Albert Einstein, the son of Albert Einstein.
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D.
Judith Noel
Judith Noel was an English aristocrat and heiress of the Noel family, notable as the mother of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
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E.
Colleen Sostorics
Colleen Sostorics is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman and three-time Olympic gold medallist who starred with the national women’s team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ |
| spouse |
Howard Da Silva
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Nancy Zala self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Nancy Zala Description of subject: Nancy Zala was the wife of American actor and director Howard Da Silva.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Howard Da Silva