Fred May
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Fred May was the third husband of Hollywood actress Lana Turner, known primarily for his brief marriage to the film star in the 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fred May canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7266971 — 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: Fred May Context triple: [Lana Turner, spouse, Fred May]
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A.
Terry Donahue
Terry Donahue was a highly successful American college football coach best known for leading the UCLA Bruins to multiple conference titles and bowl victories during his long tenure.
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B.
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz was a Hungarian-American film director best known for helming classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca."
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C.
Charles Farrell
Charles Farrell was an American film actor best known as a popular romantic leading man of the late silent and early sound era, frequently paired on screen with Janet Gaynor.
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D.
Frank Albertson
Frank Albertson was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career from the 1920s through the 1960s, including roles in classics like "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Psycho."
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E.
Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his influential work in both comedy and drama during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics like "The Awful Truth" and "Going My Way."
- 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: Fred May Target entity description: Fred May was the third husband of Hollywood actress Lana Turner, known primarily for his brief marriage to the film star in the 1940s.
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A.
Terry Donahue
Terry Donahue was a highly successful American college football coach best known for leading the UCLA Bruins to multiple conference titles and bowl victories during his long tenure.
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B.
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz was a Hungarian-American film director best known for helming classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca."
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C.
Charles Farrell
Charles Farrell was an American film actor best known as a popular romantic leading man of the late silent and early sound era, frequently paired on screen with Janet Gaynor.
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D.
Frank Albertson
Frank Albertson was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career from the 1920s through the 1960s, including roles in classics like "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Psycho."
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E.
Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his influential work in both comedy and drama during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics like "The Awful Truth" and "Going My Way."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| hadHusband | Fred May ⓘ |
| hadHusbandOrder | third husband Fred May ⓘ |
| marriageOrderToLanaTurner | third husband ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Lana Turner ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| residence | Hollywood ⓘ |
| spouse |
Fred May
ⓘ
Lana Turner ⓘ |
| spouseName | Lana Turner ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | American ⓘ |
| spouseNotableWorkField | Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | film actress ⓘ |
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: Fred May Description of subject: Fred May was the third husband of Hollywood actress Lana Turner, known primarily for his brief marriage to the film star in the 1940s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Fred May