Edith Shearer
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Edith Shearer was the mother of Canadian-born actress Athole Shearer and part of the family that produced several notable figures in early Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edith Shearer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4356565 — 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: Edith Shearer Context triple: [Athole Shearer, mother, Edith Shearer]
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A.
Edith Luckett
Edith Luckett was an American stage actress best known as the mother of Nancy Reagan, the future First Lady of the United States.
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B.
Edith Snodgrass
Edith Snodgrass is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Snodgrass surname.
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C.
Edith Evans
Edith Evans is a fictional character in the film "We Don't Live Here Anymore," central to the story’s exploration of marital strain and emotional infidelity.
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D.
Edith Evans
Edith Evans was a distinguished English stage and film actress renowned for her commanding presence and acclaimed portrayals of classic roles in works by Shakespeare, Wilde, and Shaw.
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E.
Edith Farmer
Edith Farmer was the sister of American actress Frances Farmer, known primarily in relation to her sibling’s troubled Hollywood career and legacy.
- 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: Edith Shearer Target entity description: Edith Shearer was the mother of Canadian-born actress Athole Shearer and part of the family that produced several notable figures in early Hollywood cinema.
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A.
Edith Luckett
Edith Luckett was an American stage actress best known as the mother of Nancy Reagan, the future First Lady of the United States.
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B.
Edith Snodgrass
Edith Snodgrass is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Snodgrass surname.
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C.
Edith Evans
Edith Evans was a distinguished English stage and film actress renowned for her commanding presence and acclaimed portrayals of classic roles in works by Shakespeare, Wilde, and Shaw.
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D.
Edith Evans
Edith Evans is a fictional character in the film "We Don't Live Here Anymore," central to the story’s exploration of marital strain and emotional infidelity.
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E.
Edith Farmer
Edith Farmer was the sister of American actress Frances Farmer, known primarily in relation to her sibling’s troubled Hollywood career and legacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Athole Shearer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Canadian of British descent ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | Athole Shearer ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| relative | Athole Shearer ⓘ |
| residence | Montreal ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Edith Shearer Description of subject: Edith Shearer was the mother of Canadian-born actress Athole Shearer and part of the family that produced several notable figures in early Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.