Ruby Gentry
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Ruby Gentry is a 1952 American melodrama film directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones as a poor Southern woman whose passionate love and social struggles lead to tragedy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruby Gentry canonical | 3 |
| Ruby Corey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2498194 — 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: Ruby Gentry Context triple: [King Vidor, notableWork, Ruby Gentry]
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A.
Gwendolyn Rickard
Gwendolyn Rickard was the longtime wife of American actor and dancer Ray Bolger, best known for his role as the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz."
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B.
Anne Ashmond
Anne Ashmond is a fictional character appearing in the film "Royal Wedding."
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C.
Alice Kincaid
Alice Kincaid is a fictional character known as the daughter of Lemon Breeland in the television series "Hart of Dixie."
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D.
Katherine Green
Katherine Green is a film editor known for her work on the romantic comedy "40 Days and 40 Nights."
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E.
Kate Garvey
Kate Garvey is a British public relations executive and former political aide, known for her work with Tony Blair and her marriage to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.
- 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: Ruby Gentry Target entity description: Ruby Gentry is a 1952 American melodrama film directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones as a poor Southern woman whose passionate love and social struggles lead to tragedy.
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A.
Gwendolyn Rickard
Gwendolyn Rickard was the longtime wife of American actor and dancer Ray Bolger, best known for his role as the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz."
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B.
Anne Ashmond
Anne Ashmond is a fictional character appearing in the film "Royal Wedding."
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C.
Alice Kincaid
Alice Kincaid is a fictional character known as the daughter of Lemon Breeland in the television series "Hart of Dixie."
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D.
Katherine Green
Katherine Green is a film editor known for her work on the romantic comedy "40 Days and 40 Nights."
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E.
Kate Garvey
Kate Garvey is a British public relations executive and former political aide, known for her work with Tony Blair and her marriage to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
film ⓘ melodrama film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| BoakeTackmanPlayedBy | Charlton Heston ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Edward Cronjager ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | King Vidor ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| editedBy | Robert L. Simpson ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Boake Tackman
ⓘ
Jim Gentry ⓘ |
| filmingProcess | black-and-white cinematography ⓘ |
| genre |
melodrama
ⓘ
romantic drama film ⓘ |
| hasFilmRatingSystem |
Motion Picture Production Code
ⓘ
surface form:
Production Code era Hollywood
|
| hasScoreStyle | orchestral film score ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
love across class boundaries
ⓘ
revenge ⓘ social mobility ⓘ tragedy ⓘ |
| JimGentryPlayedBy | Karl Malden ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Ruby Gentry
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ruby Corey
|
| musicBy | Franz Waxman ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a poor Southern woman whose love and social struggles lead to tragedy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Jennifer Jones’s performance as Ruby
ⓘ
depiction of Southern Gothic melodrama elements ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 1950s American cinema ⓘ |
| portrays |
class conflict in the American South
ⓘ
romantic obsession ⓘ social prejudice ⓘ |
| producer | King Vidor ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1952-01-23 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1952 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 82 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Kettle Moraine (story basis credited as "original" screenplay) ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| setInRegion |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
|
| starring |
Charlton Heston
ⓘ
James Anderson ⓘ Jennifer Jones ⓘ Karl Malden ⓘ Tom Tully ⓘ |
| titleCharacterPlayedBy | Jennifer Jones ⓘ |
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: Ruby Gentry Description of subject: Ruby Gentry is a 1952 American melodrama film directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones as a poor Southern woman whose passionate love and social struggles lead to tragedy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ruby Corey