Woodard
E292901
American actress
American architect
American baseball player
American conductor
American gridiron football player
American judge
American mathematician
American politician
American tennis player
British politician
association football player
family name
surname
Woodard is the family name of American actress Jane Darwell, known for her Academy Award–winning role as Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Woodard canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2728174 — 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: Woodard Context triple: [Jane Darwell, familyName, Woodard]
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A.
Rockwood
Rockwood is a small city in eastern Tennessee that forms part of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
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B.
Blackwood
Blackwood is a town in south Wales known for its coal-mining heritage and location in the Sirhowy Valley.
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C.
Lockwood
Lockwood is a small unincorporated community in Storey County, Nevada, located just east of Reno along the Truckee River.
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D.
Lockwood
Lockwood is a gentleman outsider and one of the primary narrators in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," through whose perspective much of the story is framed.
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E.
Wylie
Wylie is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area in northeastern Texas.
- 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: Woodard Target entity description: Woodard is the family name of American actress Jane Darwell, known for her Academy Award–winning role as Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath."
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A.
Rockwood
Rockwood is a small city in eastern Tennessee that forms part of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
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B.
Blackwood
Blackwood is a town in south Wales known for its coal-mining heritage and location in the Sirhowy Valley.
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C.
Lockwood
Lockwood is a small unincorporated community in Storey County, Nevada, located just east of Reno along the Truckee River.
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D.
Lockwood
Lockwood is a gentleman outsider and one of the primary narrators in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," through whose perspective much of the story is framed.
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E.
Wylie
Wylie is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area in northeastern Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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American actress ⓘ American architect ⓘ American baseball player ⓘ American conductor ⓘ American gridiron football player ⓘ American gridiron football player ⓘ American judge ⓘ American mathematician ⓘ American politician ⓘ American tennis player ⓘ British politician ⓘ association football player ⓘ family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Grapes of Wrath ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ⓘ |
| birthName | Patti Woodard ⓘ |
| familyName | Woodard ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alfre Woodard
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Bobby Woodard ⓘ Calvin Woodard ⓘ Chris Woodard ⓘ David Woodard ⓘ Garland Woodard ⓘ Haywood Woodard ⓘ Ian Woodard ⓘ Jane Darwell ⓘ Jarvis Woodard ⓘ Pamela Woodard ⓘ Roger Woodard ⓘ Shaun Woodard ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Woodeward
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Woodward ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Grapes of Wrath ⓘ |
| portrayed | Ma Joad ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
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: Woodard Description of subject: Woodard is the family name of American actress Jane Darwell, known for her Academy Award–winning role as Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.