Darlene Pratt
E221720
Darlene Pratt was the wife of pioneering stop-motion animator and special effects artist Willis H. O’Brien.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Darlene Pratt canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T728146 — 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: Darlene Pratt Context triple: [Willis H. O’Brien, spouse, Darlene Pratt]
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A.
Diane Monson
Diane Monson is a California medical marijuana patient and activist who became a central figure in the U.S. Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Raich challenging federal authority over state-legal cannabis use.
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B.
Emily Drinkard
Emily Drinkard, better known as Cissy Houston, is an American soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston.
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C.
Cheryl Alley
Cheryl Alley, also known as Cheryl Howard, is an American writer and actress best known as the longtime wife of filmmaker Ron Howard.
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D.
Joanne Schieble
Joanne Schieble is an American woman best known as the biological mother of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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E.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
- 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: Darlene Pratt Target entity description: Darlene Pratt was the wife of pioneering stop-motion animator and special effects artist Willis H. O’Brien.
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A.
Diane Monson
Diane Monson is a California medical marijuana patient and activist who became a central figure in the U.S. Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Raich challenging federal authority over state-legal cannabis use.
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B.
Emily Drinkard
Emily Drinkard, better known as Cissy Houston, is an American soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston.
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C.
Cheryl Alley
Cheryl Alley, also known as Cheryl Howard, is an American writer and actress best known as the longtime wife of filmmaker Ron Howard.
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D.
Joanne Schieble
Joanne Schieble is an American woman best known as the biological mother of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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E.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| occupation |
special effects artist
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stop-motion animator ⓘ |
| spouse |
Darlene Pratt
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Willis H. O’Brien ⓘ |
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: Darlene Pratt Description of subject: Darlene Pratt was the wife of pioneering stop-motion animator and special effects artist Willis H. O’Brien.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Willis H. O’Brien