Norma Shepherd
E322509
Norma Shepherd was the wife of renowned film composer Bernard Herrmann, known primarily in relation to his personal life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Norma Shepherd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2668129 — 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: Norma Shepherd Context triple: [Bernard Herrmann, spouse, Norma Shepherd]
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A.
Bernice Fisher
Bernice Fisher was an American civil rights activist and organizer who helped pioneer nonviolent direct action tactics and co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality.
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B.
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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C.
Verna Felton
Verna Felton was an American character actress and voice performer best known for her memorable roles in classic Disney animated films.
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D.
Norma Crane
Norma Crane was an American actress best known for her role as Golde, Tevye’s wife, in the film adaptation of the musical "Fiddler on the Roof."
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E.
Donna Sheridan
Donna Sheridan is the free-spirited, independent single mother at the heart of the musical and film "Mamma Mia!", known for her past with three former lovers and her close bond with her daughter Sophie.
- 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: Norma Shepherd Target entity description: Norma Shepherd was the wife of renowned film composer Bernard Herrmann, known primarily in relation to his personal life.
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A.
Bernice Fisher
Bernice Fisher was an American civil rights activist and organizer who helped pioneer nonviolent direct action tactics and co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality.
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B.
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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C.
Verna Felton
Verna Felton was an American character actress and voice performer best known for her memorable roles in classic Disney animated films.
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D.
Norma Crane
Norma Crane was an American actress best known for her role as Golde, Tevye’s wife, in the film adaptation of the musical "Fiddler on the Roof."
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E.
Donna Sheridan
Donna Sheridan is the free-spirited, independent single mother at the heart of the musical and film "Mamma Mia!", known for her past with three former lovers and her close bond with her daughter Sophie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (4)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of film composer Bernard Herrmann ⓘ |
| relativeNotability | known primarily in relation to Bernard Herrmann's personal life ⓘ |
| spouse | Bernard Herrmann ⓘ |
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: Norma Shepherd Description of subject: Norma Shepherd was the wife of renowned film composer Bernard Herrmann, known primarily in relation to his personal life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.