Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke
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Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke, better known as Billie Burke, was an American actress famed for her role as Glinda the Good Witch in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
All labels observed (1)
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| Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2666076 — 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: Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke Context triple: [Billie Burke, birthName, Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke]
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Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of Robert Rogers, the famed 18th-century American frontiersman and leader of Rogers' Rangers.
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Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of the pioneering English physician William Harvey, known for his discovery of the circulation of blood.
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Harriet Appleton Post
Harriet Appleton Post was an American socialite best known as the first wife of prominent U.S. diplomat Sumner Welles.
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D.
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt was an American art patron and collector who, with her sisters, played a key role in establishing what became the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.
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E.
Frances Violet Stewart
Frances Violet Stewart was the wife of American socialist leader and six-time presidential candidate Norman Thomas.
- 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: Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke Target entity description: Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke, better known as Billie Burke, was an American actress famed for her role as Glinda the Good Witch in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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A.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of Robert Rogers, the famed 18th-century American frontiersman and leader of Rogers' Rangers.
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B.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of the pioneering English physician William Harvey, known for his discovery of the circulation of blood.
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C.
Harriet Appleton Post
Harriet Appleton Post was an American socialite best known as the first wife of prominent U.S. diplomat Sumner Welles.
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D.
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt was an American art patron and collector who, with her sisters, played a key role in establishing what became the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.
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E.
Frances Violet Stewart
Frances Violet Stewart was the wife of American socialist leader and six-time presidential candidate Norman Thomas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke Description of subject: Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke, better known as Billie Burke, was an American actress famed for her role as Glinda the Good Witch in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke
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Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke
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Billie Burke
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke
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spouse
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Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke
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subject surface form:
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke
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Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke
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subject surface form:
Glinda the Good Witch
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke
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subject surface form:
The Wizard of Oz
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Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke
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Glinda the Good Witch