Elaine Barrie
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Elaine Barrie was an American actress best known for her brief film career in the late 1930s and her highly publicized marriage to actor John Barrymore.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elaine Barrie canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4623498 — 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: Elaine Barrie Context triple: [Midnight (1939 film), starring, Elaine Barrie]
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A.
Joan Barclay
Joan Barclay was an American film actress known for her numerous roles in low-budget Westerns and B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Nora Barlow
Nora Barlow was a British botanist and editor best known as Charles Darwin’s granddaughter and for publishing and annotating key editions of his works and correspondence.
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C.
Aileen Britton
Aileen Britton was an Australian actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Barbara Hancock
Barbara Hancock is an American actress and dancer best known for her role in the 1968 musical fantasy film "Finian's Rainbow."
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E.
Betty Lawford
Betty Lawford was a British-born film actress of the early 20th century who appeared in Hollywood productions during the 1930s.
- 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: Elaine Barrie Target entity description: Elaine Barrie was an American actress best known for her brief film career in the late 1930s and her highly publicized marriage to actor John Barrymore.
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A.
Joan Barclay
Joan Barclay was an American film actress known for her numerous roles in low-budget Westerns and B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Nora Barlow
Nora Barlow was a British botanist and editor best known as Charles Darwin’s granddaughter and for publishing and annotating key editions of his works and correspondence.
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C.
Aileen Britton
Aileen Britton was an Australian actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Barbara Hancock
Barbara Hancock is an American actress and dancer best known for her role in the 1968 musical fantasy film "Finian's Rainbow."
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E.
Betty Lawford
Betty Lawford was a British-born film actress of the early 20th century who appeared in Hollywood productions during the 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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actress ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| birthName | Elaine Jacobs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era |
Golden Age of Hollywood
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linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
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| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyConnectedTo | Barrymore family ⓘ |
| genre | film acting ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageEndWithJohnBarrymore | 1940 ⓘ |
| marriageStartWithJohnBarrymore | 1936 ⓘ |
| mediaAttention | highly publicized marriage to John Barrymore ⓘ |
| name | Elaine Barrie ⓘ |
| notableFor |
brief film career in the late 1930s
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marriage to John Barrymore ⓘ |
| notableRelativeByMarriage |
Ethel Barrymore
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Lionel Barrymore ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| publicImage | celebrity spouse in Hollywood’s Golden Age ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City (periods of life)
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linked to:
New York City
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | John Barrymore ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor |
John Barrymore – prominent stage and film actor
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linked to:
John Barrymore
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| spouseOccupation |
John Barrymore – actor
ⓘ
linked to:
John Barrymore
|
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: Elaine Barrie Description of subject: Elaine Barrie was an American actress best known for her brief film career in the late 1930s and her highly publicized marriage to actor John Barrymore.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.