Norma Shearer
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Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American film actress and major MGM star of the 1920s and 1930s, renowned for her sophisticated roles and an Academy Award–winning performance in "The Divorcee."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Norma Shearer canonical | 57 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2887020 — 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 Shearer Context triple: [Irving Thalberg, spouse, Norma Shearer]
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A.
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor was an American film actress best known as a major star of the silent and early sound eras, including her acclaimed role in the original "A Star Is Born."
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B.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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C.
Virginia Mayo
Virginia Mayo was a popular American film actress and dancer of the 1940s and 1950s, best known for her roles in movies such as "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "White Heat."
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D.
Clara Bow
Clara Bow was a hugely popular American silent film actress of the 1920s, famously known as the original "It Girl" and a defining sex symbol of the Jazz Age.
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E.
Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson was a prominent American actress and producer best known as a glamorous silent film star and for her iconic role in the classic film "Sunset Boulevard."
- 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 Shearer Target entity description: Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American film actress and major MGM star of the 1920s and 1930s, renowned for her sophisticated roles and an Academy Award–winning performance in "The Divorcee."
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A.
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor was an American film actress best known as a major star of the silent and early sound eras, including her acclaimed role in the original "A Star Is Born."
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B.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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C.
Virginia Mayo
Virginia Mayo was a popular American film actress and dancer of the 1940s and 1950s, best known for her roles in movies such as "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "White Heat."
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D.
Clara Bow
Clara Bow was a hugely popular American silent film actress of the 1920s, famously known as the original "It Girl" and a defining sex symbol of the Jazz Age.
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E.
Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson was a prominent American actress and producer best known as a glamorous silent film star and for her iconic role in the classic film "Sunset Boulevard."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Shearer Description of subject: Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American film actress and major MGM star of the 1920s and 1930s, renowned for her sophisticated roles and an Academy Award–winning performance in "The Divorcee."
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Smilin' Through
subject linked to:
screenwriter Casey Robinson
subject linked to:
Thalberg family
subject linked to:
Thalberg family