Nora Dunn
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Nora Dunn is an American actress and comedian best known as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" in the late 1980s and for her numerous film and television roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nora Dunn canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3009578 — 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: Nora Dunn Context triple: [Three Kings, castMember, Nora Dunn]
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A.
Nora Rowley
Nora Rowley is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," notable for her intelligence, independence, and complex romantic choices within Victorian society.
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B.
Annette Kirk
Annette Kirk is an American cultural advocate and widow of conservative thinker Russell Kirk, known for promoting his intellectual legacy and traditionalist ideas through institutions such as the Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.
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C.
Emily Woodruff
Emily Woodruff was the wife of Canadian-American actor Hume Cronyn and is primarily known for her connection to his life and career.
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D.
Lilla Crawford
Lilla Crawford is an American actress and singer best known for her work in musical theatre and film, including playing the title role in Broadway’s "Annie" and Little Red Riding Hood in the 2014 film adaptation of "Into the Woods."
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E.
Betsy Rue
Betsy Rue is an American actress best known for her roles in horror and thriller films, including her appearance in the slasher movie "My Bloody Valentine 3D."
- 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: Nora Dunn Target entity description: Nora Dunn is an American actress and comedian best known as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" in the late 1980s and for her numerous film and television roles.
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A.
Nora Rowley
Nora Rowley is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," notable for her intelligence, independence, and complex romantic choices within Victorian society.
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B.
Annette Kirk
Annette Kirk is an American cultural advocate and widow of conservative thinker Russell Kirk, known for promoting his intellectual legacy and traditionalist ideas through institutions such as the Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.
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C.
Emily Woodruff
Emily Woodruff was the wife of Canadian-American actor Hume Cronyn and is primarily known for her connection to his life and career.
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D.
Lilla Crawford
Lilla Crawford is an American actress and singer best known for her work in musical theatre and film, including playing the title role in Broadway’s "Annie" and Little Red Riding Hood in the 2014 film adaptation of "Into the Woods."
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E.
Betsy Rue
Betsy Rue is an American actress best known for her roles in horror and thriller films, including her appearance in the slasher movie "My Bloody Valentine 3D."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| familyName | Dunn ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
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television comedy ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Nora ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Nora Dunn self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | cast member on Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bruce Almighty
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Curb Your Enthusiasm ⓘ Entourage ⓘ Home Economics ⓘ Miami Blues ⓘ Pineapple Express ⓘ Saturday Night Live ⓘ The Big Leap ⓘ The Boss ⓘ The Guilt Trip ⓘ The Last Supper ⓘ The Nanny ⓘ The Nanny Diaries ⓘ The X-Files ⓘ Three Kings ⓘ Working Girl ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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comedian ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Nora Dunn Description of subject: Nora Dunn is an American actress and comedian best known as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" in the late 1980s and for her numerous film and television roles.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.