Meriel Forbes
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Meriel Forbes was a British actress known for her stage and film work and for her long marriage to renowned actor Ralph Richardson.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meriel Forbes canonical | 2 |
| Meriel Forbes-Robertson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6897295 — 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: Meriel Forbes Context triple: [Ralph Richardson, spouse, Meriel Forbes]
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A.
Clarissa Vaughan
Clarissa Vaughan is a New York editor in Michael Cunningham’s novel "The Hours," whose day mirrors that of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway as she prepares for a party while reflecting on love, mortality, and past relationships.
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B.
Diana Sambrooke
Diana Sambrooke was an English heiress of the early 18th century who became the wife of the prominent military and political figure Lord George Sackville (later Lord George Germain).
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C.
Emma Forrest
Emma Forrest is a British-born novelist, journalist, and screenwriter known for her memoir "Your Voice in My Head" and her work in both literature and film.
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D.
Tessa Quayle
Tessa Quayle is a passionate human-rights activist whose mysterious death in Kenya drives the political and emotional intrigue at the heart of John le Carré’s novel "The Constant Gardener."
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E.
Isolde Denham
Isolde Denham was a British actress and the first wife of actor, writer, and filmmaker Peter Ustinov.
- 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: Meriel Forbes Target entity description: Meriel Forbes was a British actress known for her stage and film work and for her long marriage to renowned actor Ralph Richardson.
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A.
Clarissa Vaughan
Clarissa Vaughan is a New York editor in Michael Cunningham’s novel "The Hours," whose day mirrors that of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway as she prepares for a party while reflecting on love, mortality, and past relationships.
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B.
Diana Sambrooke
Diana Sambrooke was an English heiress of the early 18th century who became the wife of the prominent military and political figure Lord George Sackville (later Lord George Germain).
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C.
Emma Forrest
Emma Forrest is a British-born novelist, journalist, and screenwriter known for her memoir "Your Voice in My Head" and her work in both literature and film.
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D.
Tessa Quayle
Tessa Quayle is a passionate human-rights activist whose mysterious death in Kenya drives the political and emotional intrigue at the heart of John le Carré’s novel "The Constant Gardener."
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E.
Isolde Denham
Isolde Denham was a British actress and the first wife of actor, writer, and filmmaker Peter Ustinov.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| birthName |
Meriel Forbes-Robertson
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linked to:
Meriel Forbes
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-09-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2000-04-07 ⓘ |
| familyName | Forbes-Robertson ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Meriel ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Forbes-Robertson family ⓘ |
| name | Meriel Forbes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
film acting
ⓘ
marriage to Ralph Richardson ⓘ stage acting ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Fallen Idol
ⓘ
The Holly and the Ivy ⓘ The Smallest Show on Earth ⓘ The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Dorking
ⓘ
England ⓘ Surrey ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
ⓘ
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| relative |
Gertrude Forbes-Robertson
ⓘ
Johnston Forbes-Robertson ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Ralph Richardson ⓘ |
| workedOn |
British cinema
ⓘ
British theatre ⓘ |
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: Meriel Forbes Description of subject: Meriel Forbes was a British actress known for her stage and film work and for her long marriage to renowned actor Ralph Richardson.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Meriel Forbes