Evelyn Ward
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Evelyn Ward was an American actress and singer best known for her work on stage and television in the mid-20th century and as the mother of entertainer David Cassidy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Evelyn Ward canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5226851 — 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: Evelyn Ward Context triple: [David Cassidy, mother, Evelyn Ward]
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A.
Marion Ravenwood
Marion Ravenwood is a tough, resourceful bar owner and adventurer best known as Indiana Jones’s spirited love interest and partner in the Indiana Jones film series.
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B.
Valerie Gaunt
Valerie Gaunt was a British actress best known for her roles in classic Hammer horror films of the 1950s.
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C.
Lucy Waller
Lucy Waller is an alternate name for Lucy Parsons, a prominent American labor organizer, radical socialist, and anarchist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Delilah
Delilah is a biblical figure best known for betraying Samson by discovering and revealing the secret of his strength.
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E.
Delilah
"Delilah" is a song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, featured on their 2015 album *How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful*.
- 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: Evelyn Ward Target entity description: Evelyn Ward was an American actress and singer best known for her work on stage and television in the mid-20th century and as the mother of entertainer David Cassidy.
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A.
Marion Ravenwood
Marion Ravenwood is a tough, resourceful bar owner and adventurer best known as Indiana Jones’s spirited love interest and partner in the Indiana Jones film series.
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B.
Valerie Gaunt
Valerie Gaunt was a British actress best known for her roles in classic Hammer horror films of the 1950s.
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C.
Lucy Waller
Lucy Waller is an alternate name for Lucy Parsons, a prominent American labor organizer, radical socialist, and anarchist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Delilah
Delilah is a biblical figure best known for betraying Samson by discovering and revealing the secret of his strength.
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E.
Delilah
"Delilah" is a song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, featured on their 2015 album *How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | dementia ⓘ |
| child | David Cassidy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-05-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-12-23 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of David Cassidy
ⓘ
mid-20th century stage work ⓘ mid-20th century television work ⓘ |
| notableWork |
stage acting
ⓘ
television acting ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| performerIn |
Broadway theatre
ⓘ
linked to:
Broadway theater
television series ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
West Orange, New Jersey, United States of America
ⓘ
linked to:
West Orange, New Jersey, United States
|
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States of America ⓘ |
| relative |
Patrick Cassidy
ⓘ
Ryan Cassidy ⓘ Shaun Cassidy ⓘ Shirley Jones ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
ⓘ
New York City, New York, United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Jack Cassidy ⓘ |
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: Evelyn Ward Description of subject: Evelyn Ward was an American actress and singer best known for her work on stage and television in the mid-20th century and as the mother of entertainer David Cassidy.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.