Ellen Bowen
E268411
Ellen Bowen is a fictional character from the 1951 MGM musical film "Royal Wedding," which starred Fred Astaire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ellen Bowen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2007787 — 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: Ellen Bowen Context triple: [Royal Wedding, character, Ellen Bowen]
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A.
Mary Fowler Brennan
Mary Fowler Brennan was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter.
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B.
Catherine Nuth Johnson
Catherine Nuth Johnson was the mother of Louisa Catherine Adams, who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of President John Quincy Adams.
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C.
Maria Bartow Cole
Maria Bartow Cole was the wife of prominent American landscape painter Thomas Cole and a member of the influential Bartow family of New York.
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D.
Elaine Anderson Scott
Elaine Anderson Scott was the third wife of American author John Steinbeck, with whom she shared his later life and literary success.
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E.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
- 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: Ellen Bowen Target entity description: Ellen Bowen is a fictional character from the 1951 MGM musical film "Royal Wedding," which starred Fred Astaire.
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A.
Mary Fowler Brennan
Mary Fowler Brennan was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter.
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B.
Catherine Nuth Johnson
Catherine Nuth Johnson was the mother of Louisa Catherine Adams, who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of President John Quincy Adams.
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C.
Maria Bartow Cole
Maria Bartow Cole was the wife of prominent American landscape painter Thomas Cole and a member of the influential Bartow family of New York.
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D.
Elaine Anderson Scott
Elaine Anderson Scott was the third wife of American author John Steinbeck, with whom she shared his later life and literary success.
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E.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Royal Wedding ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Royal Wedding ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | musical comedy ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerformer | Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| featuredInStudioProduction | MGM ⓘ |
| fictionalOccupation |
dancer
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| hasRomanticInterestIn | Lord John Brindale ⓘ |
| hasSiblingInStory | Tom Bowen ⓘ |
| hasTitleOfWork | Royal Wedding ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | co-lead character ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalEnsemble | Royal Wedding cast of characters ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jane Powell ⓘ |
| settingOfStory |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
transatlantic ocean liner ⓘ |
| siblingRelationshipType | sister ⓘ |
| storyTimePeriod | early 1950s ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | musical film ⓘ |
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: Ellen Bowen Description of subject: Ellen Bowen is a fictional character from the 1951 MGM musical film "Royal Wedding," which starred Fred Astaire.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.