Evelyn Venable
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Evelyn Venable was an American actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known as the original visual model for the Columbia Pictures Torch Lady and for voicing the Blue Fairy in Disney’s "Pinocchio."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Evelyn Venable canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6382082 — 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: Evelyn Venable Context triple: [Hal Mohr, spouse, Evelyn Venable]
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A.
Violet Venable
Violet Venable is a wealthy, domineering New Orleans matriarch in Tennessee Williams' play "Suddenly, Last Summer," obsessed with preserving the memory of her dead son at any cost.
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B.
Lillian Langdon
Lillian Langdon was an American silent film actress active in the early 20th century, known for her character roles in numerous dramas and melodramas.
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C.
Evelyn Carnahan
Evelyn Carnahan is a brilliant and adventurous English Egyptologist and librarian who serves as a central heroine in the 1999 film "The Mummy" and its sequels.
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D.
Evelyn Baldwin
Evelyn Baldwin was the wife of pioneering American film director D. W. Griffith.
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E.
Eleanor Vance
Eleanor Vance is the psychologically fragile protagonist of Shirley Jackson’s horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," whose experiences in the haunted mansion drive the story’s exploration of fear and isolation.
- 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: Evelyn Venable Target entity description: Evelyn Venable was an American actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known as the original visual model for the Columbia Pictures Torch Lady and for voicing the Blue Fairy in Disney’s "Pinocchio."
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A.
Violet Venable
Violet Venable is a wealthy, domineering New Orleans matriarch in Tennessee Williams' play "Suddenly, Last Summer," obsessed with preserving the memory of her dead son at any cost.
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B.
Lillian Langdon
Lillian Langdon was an American silent film actress active in the early 20th century, known for her character roles in numerous dramas and melodramas.
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C.
Evelyn Carnahan
Evelyn Carnahan is a brilliant and adventurous English Egyptologist and librarian who serves as a central heroine in the 1999 film "The Mummy" and its sequels.
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D.
Evelyn Baldwin
Evelyn Baldwin was the wife of pioneering American film director D. W. Griffith.
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E.
Eleanor Vance
Eleanor Vance is the psychologically fragile protagonist of Shirley Jackson’s horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," whose experiences in the haunted mansion drive the story’s exploration of fear and isolation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
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human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ voice actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1940s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Idaho, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-10-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1993-11-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Los Angeles
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University of Cincinnati NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
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surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| familyName | Venable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
ⓘ
theatre acting ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| givenName | Evelyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0892961 ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Quaker ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Evelyn Venable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the original visual model for the Columbia Pictures Torch Lady logo ⓘ |
| notableStudentOrTaughtAt | UCLA Department of Theater Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Pinocchio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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university teacher ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Crusades (1935 film)
NERFINISHED
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David Copperfield (1935 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Death Takes a Holiday NERFINISHED ⓘ Harmony Lane (1935 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Passage (1940 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Fairy (1935 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Little Colonel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Idaho, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Hal Mohr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceRole | Blue Fairy in Pinocchio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedFor |
Columbia Pictures
NERFINISHED
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Evelyn Venable Description of subject: Evelyn Venable was an American actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known as the original visual model for the Columbia Pictures Torch Lady and for voicing the Blue Fairy in Disney’s "Pinocchio."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.