Elizabeth "Betty" Wood
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Elizabeth "Betty" Wood was the wife of American bank robber and gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly, born George Barnes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elizabeth "Betty" Wood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7731753 — 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: Elizabeth "Betty" Wood Context triple: [George Barnes, spouse, Elizabeth "Betty" Wood]
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A.
Betty Furness
Betty Furness was an American actress and television personality best known for her film roles in the 1930s and later as a pioneering consumer affairs advocate on TV.
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B.
Elizabeth "Betty" Hadley
Elizabeth "Betty" Hadley was the wife of American film and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
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C.
Betty Lawford
Betty Lawford was a British-born film actress of the early 20th century who appeared in Hollywood productions during the 1930s.
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D.
Betty Heslop
Betty Heslop is the long-suffering, emotionally fragile mother of the protagonist in the Australian film "Muriel's Wedding," whose tragic circumstances highlight the cruelty and dysfunction within her family.
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E.
Betty Thomas
Betty Thomas is an American actress and director best known for her Emmy-winning role on the television drama "Hill Street Blues" and for directing several successful comedy films.
- 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: Elizabeth "Betty" Wood Target entity description: Elizabeth "Betty" Wood was the wife of American bank robber and gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly, born George Barnes.
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A.
Betty Furness
Betty Furness was an American actress and television personality best known for her film roles in the 1930s and later as a pioneering consumer affairs advocate on TV.
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B.
Elizabeth "Betty" Hadley
Elizabeth "Betty" Hadley was the wife of American film and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
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C.
Betty Lawford
Betty Lawford was a British-born film actress of the early 20th century who appeared in Hollywood productions during the 1930s.
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D.
Betty Heslop
Betty Heslop is the long-suffering, emotionally fragile mother of the protagonist in the Australian film "Muriel's Wedding," whose tragic circumstances highlight the cruelty and dysfunction within her family.
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E.
Betty Thomas
Betty Thomas is an American actress and director best known for her Emmy-winning role on the television drama "Hill Street Blues" and for directing several successful comedy films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American bank robber
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gangster ⓘ human ⓘ spouse ⓘ |
| birthName | George Barnes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Elizabeth Wood ⓘ |
| nickname | Betty ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of American bank robber and gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly ⓘ |
| spouse |
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
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George Barnes ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth "Betty" Wood Description of subject: Elizabeth "Betty" Wood was the wife of American bank robber and gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly, born George Barnes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.