Olivia de Havilland
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Olivia de Havilland was a British-American actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, renowned for her nuanced dramatic performances and two Academy Award-winning roles.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Olivia de Havilland canonical | 47 |
| Olivia Mary de Havilland | 1 |
| Olivia de Havilland was a Hollywood actress | 1 |
| Olivia de Havilland – actress | 1 |
| Rachel Ashley – Olivia de Havilland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T345834 — 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: Olivia de Havilland Context triple: [The Snake Pit, starring, Olivia de Havilland]
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A.
Bette Davis
Bette Davis was an iconic American film actress renowned for her intense, uncompromising performances and pioneering portrayals of complex, strong-willed women on screen.
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B.
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn was an iconic American actress renowned for her fiercely independent screen persona, sharp wit, and a record four Academy Awards for Best Actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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C.
Loretta Young
Loretta Young was an American film and television actress known for her elegance, prolific career in Hollywood’s Golden Age, and Academy Award–winning performance in "The Farmer’s Daughter."
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D.
Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner was a celebrated American film actress and Hollywood icon of the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for her beauty, charisma, and roles in classics such as "The Killers" and "Mogambo."
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E.
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
- 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: Olivia de Havilland Target entity description: Olivia de Havilland was a British-American actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, renowned for her nuanced dramatic performances and two Academy Award-winning roles.
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A.
Bette Davis
Bette Davis was an iconic American film actress renowned for her intense, uncompromising performances and pioneering portrayals of complex, strong-willed women on screen.
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B.
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn was an iconic American actress renowned for her fiercely independent screen persona, sharp wit, and a record four Academy Awards for Best Actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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C.
Loretta Young
Loretta Young was an American film and television actress known for her elegance, prolific career in Hollywood’s Golden Age, and Academy Award–winning performance in "The Farmer’s Daughter."
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D.
Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner was a celebrated American film actress and Hollywood icon of the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for her beauty, charisma, and roles in classics such as "The Killers" and "Mogambo."
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E.
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Olivia de Havilland Description of subject: Olivia de Havilland was a British-American actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, renowned for her nuanced dramatic performances and two Academy Award-winning roles.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Olivia Mary de Havilland
subject surface form:
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)
subject surface form:
My Cousin Rachel (1952 film)
subject surface form:
My Cousin Rachel (1952 film)
this entity surface form:
Rachel Ashley – Olivia de Havilland
this entity surface form:
Olivia de Havilland – actress
this entity surface form:
Olivia de Havilland was a Hollywood actress