Ruth Gordon
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Ruth Gordon was an American actress and screenwriter renowned for her late-career film roles, particularly in "Rosemary's Baby" and "Harold and Maude."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ruth Gordon canonical | 21 |
| Ruth Gordon Jones | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T292545 — 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: Ruth Gordon Context triple: [Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, notableRecipient, Ruth Gordon]
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A.
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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B.
Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter was an acclaimed American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, humorous supporting roles in classic mid-20th-century films and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
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C.
Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman was an acclaimed American actress and comedian known for her versatile performances in film and television, including her Oscar-winning role in "The Last Picture Show" and her Emmy-winning work on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff "Phyllis."
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D.
Estelle Getty
Estelle Getty was an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the sharp-tongued Sophia Petrillo on the television sitcom "The Golden Girls."
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E.
Karen Black
Karen Black was an American actress known for her distinctive roles in 1960s–1970s New Hollywood films such as "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," and "The Great Gatsby."
- 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: Ruth Gordon Target entity description: Ruth Gordon was an American actress and screenwriter renowned for her late-career film roles, particularly in "Rosemary's Baby" and "Harold and Maude."
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A.
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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B.
Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter was an acclaimed American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, humorous supporting roles in classic mid-20th-century films and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
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C.
Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman was an acclaimed American actress and comedian known for her versatile performances in film and television, including her Oscar-winning role in "The Last Picture Show" and her Emmy-winning work on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff "Phyllis."
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D.
Estelle Getty
Estelle Getty was an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the sharp-tongued Sophia Petrillo on the television sitcom "The Golden Girls."
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E.
Karen Black
Karen Black was an American actress known for her distinctive roles in 1960s–1970s New Hollywood films such as "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," and "The Great Gatsby."
- 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: Ruth Gordon Description of subject: Ruth Gordon was an American actress and screenwriter renowned for her late-career film roles, particularly in "Rosemary's Baby" and "Harold and Maude."
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ruth Gordon Jones
this entity surface form:
Ruth Gordon Jones
subject surface form:
The Dakota
subject surface form:
Minnie Castevet
subject surface form:
Minnie Castevet