Debra Hammer
E219516
Debra Hammer is the protagonist of the 1981 American comedy film "Yesterday."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Debra Hammer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1678084 — 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: Debra Hammer Context triple: [Yesterday, mainCharacter, Debra Hammer]
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A.
Sally Menke
Sally Menke was an American film editor best known for her long-time collaboration with director Quentin Tarantino on films such as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Inglourious Basterds.
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B.
Linda Arvidson
Linda Arvidson was an early American silent film actress and writer, best known for her work in pioneering films of the 1900s and her association with director D. W. Griffith.
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C.
Roberta Seidman
Roberta Seidman was the wife of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Pamela Tatge
Pamela Tatge is an American arts leader and curator known for directing major performing arts institutions, including serving as artistic director of the renowned dance center and festival Jacob’s Pillow.
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E.
Lynne Haldeman
Lynne Haldeman is a member of the Musk family and the sister of model and dietitian Maye Musk, making her an aunt of entrepreneur Elon Musk.
- 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: Debra Hammer Target entity description: Debra Hammer is the protagonist of the 1981 American comedy film "Yesterday."
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A.
Sally Menke
Sally Menke was an American film editor best known for her long-time collaboration with director Quentin Tarantino on films such as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Inglourious Basterds.
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B.
Linda Arvidson
Linda Arvidson was an early American silent film actress and writer, best known for her work in pioneering films of the 1900s and her association with director D. W. Griffith.
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C.
Roberta Seidman
Roberta Seidman was the wife of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Pamela Tatge
Pamela Tatge is an American arts leader and curator known for directing major performing arts institutions, including serving as artistic director of the renowned dance center and festival Jacob’s Pillow.
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E.
Lynne Haldeman
Lynne Haldeman is a member of the Musk family and the sister of model and dietitian Maye Musk, making her an aunt of entrepreneur Elon Musk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Yesterday (1981 film) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | comedy film ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Yesterday (1981 film) ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 1981 ⓘ |
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: Debra Hammer Description of subject: Debra Hammer is the protagonist of the 1981 American comedy film "Yesterday."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.