Patti Woodard
E303901
Patti Woodard is the birth name of American character actress Jane Darwell, who won an Academy Award for her role as Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patti Woodard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2728172 — 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: Patti Woodard Context triple: [Jane Darwell, birthName, Patti Woodard]
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A.
Ruth Cunningham
Ruth Cunningham was the wife of American colonial lawyer and patriot James Otis Jr., a prominent figure in the early resistance to British rule.
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B.
Janet McKenzie Hill
Janet McKenzie Hill was an influential American cookbook author and early 20th-century culinary educator known for popularizing scientific home cooking and baking.
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C.
Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer was a popular American singer known for her lively pop and novelty hits in the 1950s, including the chart-topping song "Music! Music! Music!".
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D.
Jane Wills Pitts
Jane Wills Pitts was the mother of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white suffragist and second wife of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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E.
Dixie Lee
Dixie Lee was an American singer and actress of the early 20th century, best known for her work in film and music as well as her marriage to Bing Crosby.
- 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: Patti Woodard Target entity description: Patti Woodard is the birth name of American character actress Jane Darwell, who won an Academy Award for her role as Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath."
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A.
Ruth Cunningham
Ruth Cunningham was the wife of American colonial lawyer and patriot James Otis Jr., a prominent figure in the early resistance to British rule.
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B.
Janet McKenzie Hill
Janet McKenzie Hill was an influential American cookbook author and early 20th-century culinary educator known for popularizing scientific home cooking and baking.
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C.
Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer was a popular American singer known for her lively pop and novelty hits in the 1950s, including the chart-topping song "Music! Music! Music!".
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D.
Jane Wills Pitts
Jane Wills Pitts was the mother of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white suffragist and second wife of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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E.
Dixie Lee
Dixie Lee was an American singer and actress of the early 20th century, best known for her work in film and music as well as her marriage to Bing Crosby.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Jane Darwell ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Jane Darwell ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableRole | Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath" ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Grapes of Wrath ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ |
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: Patti Woodard Description of subject: Patti Woodard is the birth name of American character actress Jane Darwell, who won an Academy Award for her role as Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.