Jane Withers
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Jane Withers was a popular American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s who later became known for her work in film, television, and commercials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jane Withers canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5321322 — 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: Jane Withers Context triple: [Bright Eyes (1934 film), starring, Jane Withers]
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A.
Myrna Smith
Myrna Smith was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded and toured with artists like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin.
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B.
Shirley Owens
Shirley Owens is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the girl group The Shirelles, pioneers of the early 1960s pop and R&B sound.
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C.
Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic roles in film and television across several decades.
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D.
June Mulgrew
June Mulgrew is a New Zealand woman best known as the second wife of famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
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E.
Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone was an American film and television actress best known for her Oscar-winning role in "Written on the Wind" and her later work on the TV series "Peyton Place."
- 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: Jane Withers Target entity description: Jane Withers was a popular American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s who later became known for her work in film, television, and commercials.
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A.
Myrna Smith
Myrna Smith was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded and toured with artists like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin.
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B.
Shirley Owens
Shirley Owens is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the girl group The Shirelles, pioneers of the early 1960s pop and R&B sound.
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C.
Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic roles in film and television across several decades.
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D.
June Mulgrew
June Mulgrew is a New Zealand woman best known as the second wife of famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
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E.
Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone was an American film and television actress best known for her Oscar-winning role in "Written on the Wind" and her later work on the TV series "Peyton Place."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child actress
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commercial actress ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ voice actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2002 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1932 ⓘ |
| birthName | Jane Withers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | unspecified natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1926-04-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-08-07 ⓘ |
| employer |
20th Century Fox
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Columbia Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Withers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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family film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| name | Jane Withers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bright Eyes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Checkers NERFINISHED ⓘ Dangerous Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ General Mills "Josephine the Plumber" commercials NERFINISHED ⓘ Giant NERFINISHED ⓘ Ginger NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Miss Nobody NERFINISHED ⓘ Paddy O'Day NERFINISHED ⓘ The Alfred Hitchcock Hour NERFINISHED ⓘ The Farmer Takes a Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ The Holy Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love Boat NERFINISHED ⓘ The Munsters NERFINISHED ⓘ The North Star NERFINISHED ⓘ The Woman I Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actor ⓘ radio actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Atlanta, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Burbank, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Kenneth Errair
NERFINISHED
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William P. Moss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jane Withers Description of subject: Jane Withers was a popular American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s who later became known for her work in film, television, and commercials.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The North Star (1943 film)