Fay Wray
E4506
Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress best known for her iconic role as the damsel Ann Darrow in the classic 1933 film "King Kong."
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fay Wray canonical | 38 |
| Ann Darrow | 3 |
| Vina Fay Wray | 2 |
| Eve Trowbridge – Fay Wray | 1 |
| Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir | 1 |
| Fay Wray as Alice Pope | 1 |
| Fay Wray was known as the King Kong star | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T24902 — 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: Fay Wray Context triple: [Hollywood Forever Cemetery, hasBurial, Fay Wray]
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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.
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an iconic American actress and singer best known for her role as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" and her powerful, emotionally expressive performances on stage and screen.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was a pioneering American silent film actor, producer, and screenwriter, famed for his swashbuckling roles in early Hollywood classics like "The Mark of Zorro" and "The Thief of Bagdad."
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E.
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was a legendary Italian-born silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s, famed for roles in films like "The Sheik" and "Blood and Sand."
- 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: Fay Wray Target entity description: Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress best known for her iconic role as the damsel Ann Darrow in the classic 1933 film "King Kong."
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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.
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an iconic American actress and singer best known for her role as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" and her powerful, emotionally expressive performances on stage and screen.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was a pioneering American silent film actor, producer, and screenwriter, famed for his swashbuckling roles in early Hollywood classics like "The Mark of Zorro" and "The Thief of Bagdad."
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E.
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was a legendary Italian-born silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s, famed for roles in films like "The Sheik" and "Blood and Sand."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 96 ⓘ |
| birthName |
Fay Wray
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Vina Fay Wray
|
| burialPlace |
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
ⓘ
surface form:
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| child |
Robert Riskin
ⓘ
surface form:
Robert Riskin Jr.
Susan Saunders ⓘ Victoria Riskin ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfBirth | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfBirth | 1907-09-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-08-08 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
English descent
ⓘ
Scottish descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Wray ⓘ |
| filmAppearance |
Doctor X
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film King Kong (1933) ⓘ
surface form:
King Kong
Mystery of the Wax Museum ⓘ The Clairvoyant ⓘ The Most Dangerous Game ⓘ The Wedding March ⓘ Viva Villa! ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ horror film ⓘ |
| givenName |
Fay
ⓘ
Vina ⓘ |
| honor | Icon of early horror cinema ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movedTo |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| name | Fay Wray self-link ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Fay Wray
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ann Darrow
|
| notableWork |
film King Kong (1933)
ⓘ
surface form:
King Kong (1933 film)
|
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cardston, Alberta, Canada ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| religion | Latter-day Saint background ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
New York City ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| spouse |
John Monk Saunders
ⓘ
Robert Riskin ⓘ Sanford Rothenberg ⓘ |
| televisionAppearance |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
ⓘ
Perry Mason ⓘ |
| workedFor |
Paramount Pictures
ⓘ
RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1923–1980 ⓘ |
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: Fay Wray Description of subject: Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress best known for her iconic role as the damsel Ann Darrow in the classic 1933 film "King Kong."
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
King Kong (1933 film)
subject surface form:
King Kong (1933 film)
this entity surface form:
Ann Darrow
this entity surface form:
Ann Darrow
this entity surface form:
Ann Darrow
subject surface form:
The Most Dangerous Game (1932 film)
this entity surface form:
Eve Trowbridge – Fay Wray
subject surface form:
The Most Dangerous Game (1932 film)
subject surface form:
Cardston
subject surface form:
Vina Fay Wray
subject surface form:
Vina Fay Wray
this entity surface form:
Vina Fay Wray
this entity surface form:
Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir
this entity surface form:
Fay Wray was known as the King Kong star
this entity surface form:
Fay Wray as Alice Pope
subject surface form:
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
subject surface form:
The Affairs of Cellini
subject surface form:
Gideon's Trumpet