Janet Esselstyn Rane
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Janet Esselstyn Rane is the mother of American actor and director Anthony Perkins, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s "Psycho."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Janet Esselstyn Rane canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6412422 — 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: Janet Esselstyn Rane Context triple: [Anthony Perkins, parent, Janet Esselstyn Rane]
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A.
Bonnie Erickson
Bonnie Erickson is an American designer and creative director best known for her work with Jim Henson and for creating iconic mascots such as the Phillie Phanatic.
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B.
Janet Patterson
Janet Patterson was an acclaimed Australian costume and production designer known for her richly detailed period work on films such as "The Piano" and "Oscar and Lucinda."
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C.
Janet Healy
Janet Healy is a film producer known for her work on animated features, including the 2012 adaptation of Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax."
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D.
Janet Shearon
Janet Shearon was the first wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, with whom she shared much of his early aviation and NASA career before their divorce.
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E.
Vicki Sirotta
Vicki Sirotta is a film producer best known for her work on the horror-thriller movie "The Prophecy."
- 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: Janet Esselstyn Rane Target entity description: Janet Esselstyn Rane is the mother of American actor and director Anthony Perkins, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s "Psycho."
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A.
Bonnie Erickson
Bonnie Erickson is an American designer and creative director best known for her work with Jim Henson and for creating iconic mascots such as the Phillie Phanatic.
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B.
Janet Patterson
Janet Patterson was an acclaimed Australian costume and production designer known for her richly detailed period work on films such as "The Piano" and "Oscar and Lucinda."
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C.
Janet Healy
Janet Healy is a film producer known for her work on animated features, including the 2012 adaptation of Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax."
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D.
Janet Shearon
Janet Shearon was the first wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, with whom she shared much of his early aviation and NASA career before their divorce.
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E.
Vicki Sirotta
Vicki Sirotta is a film producer best known for her work on the horror-thriller movie "The Prophecy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ mother ⓘ |
| characterRole | Norman Bates ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| director | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| hasChild | Anthony Perkins ⓘ |
| mother | Janet Esselstyn Rane ⓘ |
| notableWork | Psycho ⓘ |
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: Janet Esselstyn Rane Description of subject: Janet Esselstyn Rane is the mother of American actor and director Anthony Perkins, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s "Psycho."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.