Ann Pennington
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Ann Pennington was a popular early 20th-century American dancer and actress best known for her energetic performances on Broadway and in silent films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ann Pennington canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2341810 — 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: Ann Pennington Context triple: [Ziegfeld Follies, notablePerformer, Ann Pennington]
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A.
Mary Meredith
Mary Meredith is a fictional character from the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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B.
Emily Sargent
Emily Sargent was a British artist and watercolorist, best known for her landscapes and for being part of the culturally prominent Sargent family.
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C.
June Mulgrew
June Mulgrew is a New Zealand woman best known as the second wife of famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
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D.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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E.
Nancy Montgomery
Nancy Montgomery is a pivotal character in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace," serving as the housekeeper and mistress whose murder becomes central to the story’s mystery.
- 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: Ann Pennington Target entity description: Ann Pennington was a popular early 20th-century American dancer and actress best known for her energetic performances on Broadway and in silent films.
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A.
Mary Meredith
Mary Meredith is a fictional character from the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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B.
Emily Sargent
Emily Sargent was a British artist and watercolorist, best known for her landscapes and for being part of the culturally prominent Sargent family.
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C.
June Mulgrew
June Mulgrew is a New Zealand woman best known as the second wife of famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
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D.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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E.
Nancy Montgomery
Nancy Montgomery is a pivotal character in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace," serving as the housekeeper and mistress whose murder becomes central to the story’s mystery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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dancer ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| artisticMedium |
film
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silent film ⓘ stage ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Pennington ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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performing arts ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
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revue ⓘ |
| givenName | Ann ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Ann Pennington self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Broadway performances
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energetic dance performances ⓘ silent film roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Broadway stage productions
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George White's Scandals ⓘ Ziegfeld Follies ⓘ silent films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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dancer ⓘ film actor ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| performingArtsDiscipline |
acting
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dance ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| typeOfActor |
silent film actor
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theatre actor ⓘ |
| typeOfDancer | Broadway dancer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Broadway
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New York City ⓘ |
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: Ann Pennington Description of subject: Ann Pennington was a popular early 20th-century American dancer and actress best known for her energetic performances on Broadway and in silent films.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.