Cora Smith
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Cora Smith is the seductive and scheming femme fatale who conspires with her lover to murder her husband in the classic film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cora Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4033390 — 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: Cora Smith Context triple: [The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film), mainCharacter, Cora Smith]
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A.
Cora Hudson
Cora Hudson is a supporting character on the sitcom "Mork & Mindy," known as Mindy’s warm, down-to-earth grandmother.
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B.
Cora Parsons
Cora Parsons was an American socialite best known for her high-profile marriage to New Jersey politician and businessman John Dryden Kuser.
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C.
Cora Peterson
Cora Peterson is a key protagonist in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage," serving as a skilled and resourceful member of the miniaturized medical team sent inside a human body.
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D.
Cora Tull
Cora Tull is a deeply religious, judgmental neighbor in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," serving as a moral commentator on the Bundren family’s actions.
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E.
Cora Crane
Cora Crane was an American writer, journalist, and proprietor of a Jacksonville, Florida brothel, best known for her long-term relationship with author Stephen Crane and her vivid reportage from the Spanish-American War.
- 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: Cora Smith Target entity description: Cora Smith is the seductive and scheming femme fatale who conspires with her lover to murder her husband in the classic film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
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A.
Cora Hudson
Cora Hudson is a supporting character on the sitcom "Mork & Mindy," known as Mindy’s warm, down-to-earth grandmother.
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B.
Cora Parsons
Cora Parsons was an American socialite best known for her high-profile marriage to New Jersey politician and businessman John Dryden Kuser.
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C.
Cora Peterson
Cora Peterson is a key protagonist in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage," serving as a skilled and resourceful member of the miniaturized medical team sent inside a human body.
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D.
Cora Tull
Cora Tull is a deeply religious, judgmental neighbor in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," serving as a moral commentator on the Bundren family’s actions.
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E.
Cora Crane
Cora Crane was an American writer, journalist, and proprietor of a Jacksonville, Florida brothel, best known for her long-term relationship with author Stephen Crane and her vivid reportage from the Spanish-American War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
femme fatale
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Postman Always Rings Twice ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm |
The Postman Always Rings Twice
ⓘ
surface form:
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film)
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| associatedWithGenre |
crime drama
ⓘ
melodrama ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
adultery
ⓘ
betrayal ⓘ crime ⓘ murder plot ⓘ |
| basedOn | Cora Papadakis ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel) ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
manipulative ⓘ scheming ⓘ seductive ⓘ |
| conspiresToMurder | Nick Smith ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | James M. Cain ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel)
ⓘ
surface form:
The Postman Always Rings Twice universe
|
| filmDirectorOfWork | Tay Garnett ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel)
ⓘ
surface form:
The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel, 1934)
|
| genreContext | film noir ⓘ |
| hairColorInFilm | blonde ⓘ |
| hasLover | Frank Chambers ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor | conspiring with her lover to kill her husband ⓘ |
| occupation |
diner co-owner
ⓘ
waitress ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Lana Turner ⓘ |
| setting | California roadside diner ⓘ |
| spouse | Nick Smith ⓘ |
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: Cora Smith Description of subject: Cora Smith is the seductive and scheming femme fatale who conspires with her lover to murder her husband in the classic film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film)