Lillian Van Ornum
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Lillian Van Ornum was the mother of American actress Frances Farmer, known for her troubled relationship with her daughter and involvement in Farmer’s institutionalization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lillian Van Ornum canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3696774 — 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: Lillian Van Ornum Context triple: [Frances Farmer, parent, Lillian Van Ornum]
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A.
Lillian Goodwin
Lillian Goodwin was an American businesswoman who co-founded the auto insurance company GEICO with her husband Leo Goodwin in the 1930s.
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B.
Lillian Jean Cornell
Lillian Jean Cornell is the daughter of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and music manager Susan Silver.
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C.
Lillian Randolph
Lillian Randolph was an American actress and singer best known for her character roles in radio, film, and television from the 1930s through the 1950s, including her work on "The Great Gildersleeve" and "It's a Wonderful Life."
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D.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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E.
Lilian Greenwood
Lilian Greenwood is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Nottingham South since 2010 and has held various frontbench and committee roles.
- 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: Lillian Van Ornum Target entity description: Lillian Van Ornum was the mother of American actress Frances Farmer, known for her troubled relationship with her daughter and involvement in Farmer’s institutionalization.
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A.
Lillian Goodwin
Lillian Goodwin was an American businesswoman who co-founded the auto insurance company GEICO with her husband Leo Goodwin in the 1930s.
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B.
Lillian Jean Cornell
Lillian Jean Cornell is the daughter of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and music manager Susan Silver.
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C.
Lillian Randolph
Lillian Randolph was an American actress and singer best known for her character roles in radio, film, and television from the 1930s through the 1950s, including her work on "The Great Gildersleeve" and "It's a Wonderful Life."
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D.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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E.
Lilian Greenwood
Lilian Greenwood is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Nottingham South since 2010 and has held various frontbench and committee roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| child | Frances Farmer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedIn | biographies of Frances Farmer ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Van Ornum ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | institutionalization of Frances Farmer ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | commitment proceedings involving Frances Farmer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of American actress Frances Farmer
ⓘ
her involvement in the institutionalization of Frances Farmer ⓘ her troubled relationship with her daughter Frances Farmer ⓘ |
| partOf | Farmer family ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jessica Lange (as Frances Farmer’s mother, character based on Lillian Van Ornum) ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
film "Frances"
ⓘ
linked to:
Frances (1982 film)
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| residence | Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ernest Farmer
ⓘ
linked to:
Ernest Melvin Farmer
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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: Lillian Van Ornum Description of subject: Lillian Van Ornum was the mother of American actress Frances Farmer, known for her troubled relationship with her daughter and involvement in Farmer’s institutionalization.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.