Alison Skipworth
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Alison Skipworth was a British-born character actress of the early 20th century, known for her sharp-tongued, often aristocratic roles in American stage and film comedies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alison Skipworth canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5514907 — 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: Alison Skipworth Context triple: [Dangerous, starring, Alison Skipworth]
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A.
Gillian Siddall
Gillian Siddall is a Canadian academic and university administrator who serves as president of Lakehead University.
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B.
Alison Moore
Alison Moore is an Australian lexicographer who serves as the editor-in-chief of the Macquarie Dictionary, a leading dictionary of Australian English.
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C.
Alison Bashford
Alison Bashford is a prominent Australian historian known for her influential work on global history, environmental history, and the history of science, medicine, and population.
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D.
Alison Brown
Alison Brown is a film industry professional best known for her role in founding the American animation company Blue Sky Studios.
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E.
Sandra Lovelock
Sandra Lovelock is known as the wife of British scientist James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis.
- 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: Alison Skipworth Target entity description: Alison Skipworth was a British-born character actress of the early 20th century, known for her sharp-tongued, often aristocratic roles in American stage and film comedies.
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A.
Gillian Siddall
Gillian Siddall is a Canadian academic and university administrator who serves as president of Lakehead University.
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B.
Alison Moore
Alison Moore is an Australian lexicographer who serves as the editor-in-chief of the Macquarie Dictionary, a leading dictionary of Australian English.
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C.
Alison Bashford
Alison Bashford is a prominent Australian historian known for her influential work on global history, environmental history, and the history of science, medicine, and population.
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D.
Alison Brown
Alison Brown is a film industry professional best known for her role in founding the American animation company Blue Sky Studios.
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E.
Sandra Lovelock
Sandra Lovelock is known as the wife of British scientist James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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character actress ⓘ film actress ⓘ person ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeIn | early 20th century ⓘ |
| birthName | Alison Mary Elliott Margaret Groom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coStarredWith |
Charles Laughton
NERFINISHED
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George Raft NERFINISHED ⓘ Mae West NERFINISHED ⓘ W. C. Fields NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1863-07-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1952-07-05 ⓘ |
| familyName | Skipworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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film comedy ⓘ stage comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Alison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| laterNationality | American ⓘ |
| name | Alison Skipworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American film comedies
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American stage comedies ⓘ aristocratic characters ⓘ sharp-tongued roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
If I Had a Million
NERFINISHED
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Night After Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Six of a Kind NERFINISHED ⓘ The Captain Hates the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil Is a Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
early 20th century
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late 19th 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: Alison Skipworth Description of subject: Alison Skipworth was a British-born character actress of the early 20th century, known for her sharp-tongued, often aristocratic roles in American stage and film comedies.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.