Thelma Todd
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Thelma Todd was a popular American film actress and comedian of the late silent and early sound era, best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies and films with the Marx Brothers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thelma Todd canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7438460 — 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: Thelma Todd Context triple: [ZaSu Pitts, notableCollaboration, Thelma Todd]
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A.
Madolyn Smith
Madolyn Smith is an American actress best known for her film and television roles in the 1980s, including prominent performances in comedies and dramas.
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B.
Madolyn Madden
Madolyn Madden is a central character in the crime thriller film "The Departed," serving as a psychiatrist entangled in the lives of both a mole in the police and an undercover cop.
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C.
Louise Glaum
Louise Glaum was a prominent American silent film actress of the 1910s and early 1920s, best known for her sophisticated "vamp" roles in melodramas.
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D.
Thelma Raye
Thelma Raye was a British stage actress best known for being the first wife of acclaimed film actor Ronald Colman.
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E.
Frances Farmer
Frances Farmer was an American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s whose turbulent life and struggles with mental illness later made her a symbol of Hollywood tragedy and institutional abuse.
- 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: Thelma Todd Target entity description: Thelma Todd was a popular American film actress and comedian of the late silent and early sound era, best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies and films with the Marx Brothers.
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A.
Madolyn Smith
Madolyn Smith is an American actress best known for her film and television roles in the 1980s, including prominent performances in comedies and dramas.
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B.
Madolyn Madden
Madolyn Madden is a central character in the crime thriller film "The Departed," serving as a psychiatrist entangled in the lives of both a mole in the police and an undercover cop.
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C.
Louise Glaum
Louise Glaum was a prominent American silent film actress of the 1910s and early 1920s, best known for her sophisticated "vamp" roles in melodramas.
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D.
Thelma Raye
Thelma Raye was a British stage actress best known for being the first wife of acclaimed film actor Ronald Colman.
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E.
Frances Farmer
Frances Farmer was an American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s whose turbulent life and struggles with mental illness later made her a symbol of Hollywood tragedy and institutional abuse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Thelma Todd Description of subject: Thelma Todd was a popular American film actress and comedian of the late silent and early sound era, best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies and films with the Marx Brothers.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.