Edith Haldeman
E329025
Edith Haldeman was an American silent film actress best known for her role in D.W. Griffith’s 1920 melodrama "Way Down East."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edith Haldeman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2550450 — 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: Edith Haldeman Context triple: [Way Down East, stars, Edith Haldeman]
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A.
Dorothy Goetz
Dorothy Goetz was the first wife of American composer Irving Berlin, remembered largely for her brief marriage and early death, which deeply influenced his later work.
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B.
Verna Hellman
Verna Hellman, better known professionally as Verna Fields, was an influential American film editor and studio executive renowned for her work on landmark films such as "Jaws."
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C.
Gertrude Blugerman
Gertrude Blugerman was the first wife of renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, to whom he was married from 1942 until their divorce in 1973.
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D.
Gertrude Elles
Gertrude Elles was a pioneering British geologist and paleontologist known for her influential work on graptolites and contributions to stratigraphy.
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E.
Margarete Boden
Margarete Boden was a German nurse who became known as the wife of Heinrich Himmler, one of the leading figures of Nazi Germany.
- 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: Edith Haldeman Target entity description: Edith Haldeman was an American silent film actress best known for her role in D.W. Griffith’s 1920 melodrama "Way Down East."
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A.
Dorothy Goetz
Dorothy Goetz was the first wife of American composer Irving Berlin, remembered largely for her brief marriage and early death, which deeply influenced his later work.
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B.
Verna Hellman
Verna Hellman, better known professionally as Verna Fields, was an influential American film editor and studio executive renowned for her work on landmark films such as "Jaws."
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C.
Gertrude Blugerman
Gertrude Blugerman was the first wife of renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, to whom he was married from 1942 until their divorce in 1973.
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D.
Gertrude Elles
Gertrude Elles was a pioneering British geologist and paleontologist known for her influential work on graptolites and contributions to stratigraphy.
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E.
Margarete Boden
Margarete Boden was a German nurse who became known as the wife of Heinrich Himmler, one of the leading figures of Nazi Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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human ⓘ silent film actress ⓘ |
| activeIn | silent film era ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | D. W. Griffith ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | D. W. Griffith ⓘ |
| filmFormat | silent film ⓘ |
| genre |
melodrama
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silent film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notability | best known for her role in D. W. Griffith’s 1920 melodrama "Way Down East" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Way Down East ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actress ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1920 ⓘ |
| workedOn | Way Down East ⓘ |
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: Edith Haldeman Description of subject: Edith Haldeman was an American silent film actress best known for her role in D.W. Griffith’s 1920 melodrama "Way Down East."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.