Carol Dempster
E610037
Carol Dempster was an American silent film actress best known as one of director D. W. Griffith’s leading ladies in the 1920s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carol Dempster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6505231 — 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: Carol Dempster Context triple: [Richard Barthelmess, workedWith, Carol Dempster]
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A.
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress known for her folk-inspired pop music and roles in musical theatre, including the hit musical "Blood Brothers."
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B.
Carol Dunlop
Carol Dunlop was a Canadian writer, translator, and photographer best known for co-authoring the travel book "Autonauts of the Cosmoroute" with her husband, Argentine novelist Julio Cortázar.
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C.
Margaret Craig
Margaret Craig is known primarily as the child of William Craig.
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D.
Ruth Donnelly
Ruth Donnelly was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Alison Telfer
Alison Telfer is a British academic and editor best known as the longtime partner and former wife of Monty Python member Terry Jones.
- 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: Carol Dempster Target entity description: Carol Dempster was an American silent film actress best known as one of director D. W. Griffith’s leading ladies in the 1920s.
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A.
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress known for her folk-inspired pop music and roles in musical theatre, including the hit musical "Blood Brothers."
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B.
Carol Dunlop
Carol Dunlop was a Canadian writer, translator, and photographer best known for co-authoring the travel book "Autonauts of the Cosmoroute" with her husband, Argentine novelist Julio Cortázar.
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C.
Margaret Craig
Margaret Craig is known primarily as the child of William Craig.
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D.
Ruth Donnelly
Ruth Donnelly was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Alison Telfer
Alison Telfer is a British academic and editor best known as the longtime partner and former wife of Monty Python member Terry Jones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1901-12-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1991-02-01 ⓘ |
| employer |
Biograph Company
NERFINISHED
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Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Dempster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
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cinema ⓘ |
| genre | silent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Carol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | silent film ⓘ |
| name | Carol Dempster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of D. W. Griffith’s leading ladies in the 1920s
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performances in D. W. Griffith melodramas ⓘ |
| notableWork |
America (1924 film)
NERFINISHED
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Dream Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Dream Street (1921 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Isn’t Life Wonderful NERFINISHED ⓘ Orphans of the Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ Orphans of the Storm (1921 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sally of the Sawdust NERFINISHED ⓘ Sally of the Sawdust (1925 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Girl Who Stayed at Home NERFINISHED ⓘ The Idol Dancer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love Flower NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love Flower (1920 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sorrows of Satan NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sorrows of Satan (1926 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The White Rose NERFINISHED ⓘ Way Down East NERFINISHED ⓘ Way Down East (1920 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | La Jolla, California, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | La Jolla, California, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Edwin S. Larsen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith | D. W. Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1916–1926 ⓘ |
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: Carol Dempster Description of subject: Carol Dempster was an American silent film actress best known as one of director D. W. Griffith’s leading ladies in the 1920s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.