Shirley Jones
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Shirley Jones is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in classic musical films and as the matriarch in the television series "The Partridge Family."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shirley Jones canonical | 22 |
| Shirley Ann Jones | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T440344 — 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: Shirley Jones Context triple: [Oklahoma! (1955 film), stars, Shirley Jones]
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A.
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt was an American actress best known for her roles in the film "Gentleman's Agreement" and the television series "Father Knows Best."
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B.
Bonnie Swanson
Bonnie Swanson is a recurring character on the animated sitcom Family Guy, known as Joe Swanson’s soft-spoken, long-pregnant wife and neighbor of the Griffin family.
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C.
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
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D.
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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E.
Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds was an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her roles in classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain."
- 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: Shirley Jones Target entity description: Shirley Jones is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in classic musical films and as the matriarch in the television series "The Partridge Family."
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A.
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt was an American actress best known for her roles in the film "Gentleman's Agreement" and the television series "Father Knows Best."
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B.
Bonnie Swanson
Bonnie Swanson is a recurring character on the animated sitcom Family Guy, known as Joe Swanson’s soft-spoken, long-pregnant wife and neighbor of the Griffin family.
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C.
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
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D.
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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E.
Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds was an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her roles in classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ singer ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor |
Elmer Gantry
ⓘ
surface form:
Elmer Gantry (1960 film)
|
| child |
Patrick Cassidy
ⓘ
Ryan Cassidy ⓘ Shaun Cassidy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934-03-31 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| familyName | Jones ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| genre |
musical film
ⓘ
television sitcom ⓘ |
| givenName | Shirley ⓘ |
| hairColor | blonde ⓘ |
| hasPartInDiscography |
The Partridge Family (TV series)
ⓘ
surface form:
The Partridge Family recordings
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Shirley Jones self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portraying the matriarch in The Partridge Family
ⓘ
starring in classic Rodgers and Hammerstein film adaptations ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Carousel (film)
ⓘ
surface form:
Carousel (1956 film)
Elmer Gantry ⓘ
surface form:
Elmer Gantry (1960 film)
Oklahoma! (1955 film) ⓘ The Music Man ⓘ
surface form:
The Music Man (1962 film)
The Partridge Family (TV series) ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Charleroi, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
surface form:
Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States
|
| relative | David Cassidy ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| role |
Shirley Jones (in some stage productions)
ⓘ
surface form:
Julie Jordan in Carousel (1956 film)
Laurey Williams ⓘ
surface form:
Laurey Williams in Oklahoma! (1955 film)
Lulu Bains in Elmer Gantry (1960 film) ⓘ Marian Paroo in The Music Man (1962 film) ⓘ The Partridge Family (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
Shirley Partridge in The Partridge Family (TV series)
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jack Cassidy
ⓘ
Marty Ingels ⓘ |
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: Shirley Jones Description of subject: Shirley Jones is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in classic musical films and as the matriarch in the television series "The Partridge Family."
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shirley Jones
subject surface form:
The Partridge Family
subject surface form:
The Partridge Family
subject surface form:
Bedtime Story (1964 film)
this entity surface form:
Shirley Ann Jones