Marta Heflin
E373009
Marta Heflin was an American actress best known for her roles in several of Robert Altman’s ensemble films during the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marta Heflin canonical | 2 |
| Nora Heflin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3621976 — 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: Marta Heflin Context triple: [A Wedding, hasCastMember, Marta Heflin]
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A.
Mary Burwell
Mary Burwell was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first de facto Prime Minister.
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B.
Roberta Sue Ficker
Roberta Sue Ficker is the birth name of Suzanne Farrell, the renowned American ballerina and longtime muse of choreographer George Balanchine.
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C.
Roberta Sue Ficker
Roberta Sue Ficker is the birth name of American actress and singer Roberta Peters, a renowned coloratura soprano celebrated for her long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera.
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D.
Toni Estes
Toni Estes is an American R&B singer and songwriter known for her work in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including collaborations with prominent artists and contributions to contemporary R&B tracks.
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E.
Kathy Evers
Kathy Evers is the First Lady of Wisconsin and the wife of Governor Tony Evers.
- 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: Marta Heflin Target entity description: Marta Heflin was an American actress best known for her roles in several of Robert Altman’s ensemble films during the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Mary Burwell
Mary Burwell was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first de facto Prime Minister.
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B.
Roberta Sue Ficker
Roberta Sue Ficker is the birth name of Suzanne Farrell, the renowned American ballerina and longtime muse of choreographer George Balanchine.
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C.
Roberta Sue Ficker
Roberta Sue Ficker is the birth name of American actress and singer Roberta Peters, a renowned coloratura soprano celebrated for her long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera.
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D.
Toni Estes
Toni Estes is an American R&B singer and songwriter known for her work in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including collaborations with prominent artists and contributions to contemporary R&B tracks.
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E.
Kathy Evers
Kathy Evers is the First Lady of Wisconsin and the wife of Governor Tony Evers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1970s
ⓘ
1980s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Heflin ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama film
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drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Marta ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| name | Marta Heflin ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | roles in Robert Altman ensemble films in the 1970s and 1980s ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Bride in A Wedding
ⓘ
Edna Louise in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean ⓘ Sheila Shea in A Perfect Couple ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Perfect Couple
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A Wedding ⓘ Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| partOf |
American cinema
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American theatre ⓘ |
| workedWith | Robert Altman ⓘ |
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: Marta Heflin Description of subject: Marta Heflin was an American actress best known for her roles in several of Robert Altman’s ensemble films during the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Marta Heflin