Ruth Donnelly
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Ruth Donnelly was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ruth Donnelly canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4374495 — 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: Ruth Donnelly Context triple: [Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, starring, Ruth Donnelly]
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A.
Eileen Paisley
Eileen Paisley is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as a Democratic Unionist Party representative and is known as the wife of DUP founder and former First Minister Ian Paisley.
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B.
Patricia Spence
Patricia Spence was the second wife of British philosopher and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell.
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C.
Lorna Crozier
Lorna Crozier is an acclaimed Canadian poet and educator known for her lyrical explorations of memory, landscape, and the human condition.
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D.
Ruth McCabe
Ruth McCabe is an Irish actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in acclaimed dramas such as "Philomena."
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E.
Lesley Paterson
Lesley Paterson is a Scottish screenwriter, producer, and former triathlete best known for co-writing the Oscar-winning 2022 adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front."
- 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: Ruth Donnelly Target entity description: Ruth Donnelly was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Eileen Paisley
Eileen Paisley is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as a Democratic Unionist Party representative and is known as the wife of DUP founder and former First Minister Ian Paisley.
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B.
Patricia Spence
Patricia Spence was the second wife of British philosopher and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell.
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C.
Lorna Crozier
Lorna Crozier is an acclaimed Canadian poet and educator known for her lyrical explorations of memory, landscape, and the human condition.
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D.
Ruth McCabe
Ruth McCabe is an Irish actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in acclaimed dramas such as "Philomena."
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E.
Lesley Paterson
Lesley Paterson is a Scottish screenwriter, producer, and former triathlete best known for co-writing the Oscar-winning 2022 adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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character actress ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| actingStyle | sharp-tongued ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Hollywood film industry
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linked to:
Hollywood films
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Donnelly ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Ruth ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| name | Ruth Donnelly ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Hollywood films of the 1930s
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Hollywood films of the 1940s ⓘ sharp-tongued comedic supporting roles ⓘ |
| notableWork | supporting roles in American comedy films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| typeOfRole | supporting roles ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
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: Ruth Donnelly Description of subject: Ruth Donnelly was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight_Parade
subject linked to:
Kid Millions (film)