Clara Blandick
E501846
Clara Blandick was an American character actress best remembered for playing Aunt Em in the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clara Blandick canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5141011 — 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: Clara Blandick Context triple: [Aunt Em, portrayedBy, Clara Blandick]
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A.
Anne Bracegirdle
Anne Bracegirdle was a celebrated late 17th-century English stage actress renowned for her virtuous public image and prominent roles in Restoration comedy.
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B.
Alice Birch
Alice Birch is a British playwright and screenwriter known for her bold, formally inventive work on stage and in film and television, including projects like "Lady Macbeth" and the series "Normal People."
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C.
Elizabeth Kitley
Elizabeth Kitley is an American college basketball center for Virginia Tech, recognized as one of the top players in the nation and a multi-time ACC Player of the Year.
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D.
Clara Novello Davies
Clara Novello Davies was a prominent Welsh singer and choral conductor renowned for her influential role in Welsh musical life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
- 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: Clara Blandick Target entity description: Clara Blandick was an American character actress best remembered for playing Aunt Em in the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
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A.
Anne Bracegirdle
Anne Bracegirdle was a celebrated late 17th-century English stage actress renowned for her virtuous public image and prominent roles in Restoration comedy.
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B.
Alice Birch
Alice Birch is a British playwright and screenwriter known for her bold, formally inventive work on stage and in film and television, including projects like "Lady Macbeth" and the series "Normal People."
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C.
Elizabeth Kitley
Elizabeth Kitley is an American college basketball center for Virginia Tech, recognized as one of the top players in the nation and a multi-time ACC Player of the Year.
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D.
Clara Novello Davies
Clara Novello Davies was a prominent Welsh singer and choral conductor renowned for her influential role in Welsh musical life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedIn | The Wizard of Oz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1876-06-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1962-04-15 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| familyName | Blandick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Clara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing Aunt Em in The Wizard of Oz (1939) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Clara Blandick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Aunt Em NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Wizard of Oz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American cinema ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Aunt Em NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
New York City ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Wizard of Oz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Clara Blandick Description of subject: Clara Blandick was an American character actress best remembered for playing Aunt Em in the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.