Kappelhoff
E704281
Kappelhoff is the original family surname of American actress and singer Doris Day, who was born Doris Mary Kappelhoff.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kappelhoff canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8003768 — 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: Kappelhoff Context triple: [Doris Day, familyName, Kappelhoff]
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A.
Schiffhauer
Schiffhauer is a surname, likely a variant of the German family name "Schiff."
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B.
Heideck
Heideck was a notable Philhellene, remembered for his support of the Greek cause during the Greek War of Independence.
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C.
Oberhauser
Oberhauser is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as sports, the arts, and public life.
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D.
Sperrle
Sperrle is a German surname most notably borne by Hugo Sperrle, a senior Luftwaffe field marshal during World War II.
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E.
Hauke
Hauke is a Germanic given name, particularly common in Northern Germany, that is cognate with the English name Hugh.
- 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: Kappelhoff Target entity description: Kappelhoff is the original family surname of American actress and singer Doris Day, who was born Doris Mary Kappelhoff.
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A.
Schiffhauer
Schiffhauer is a surname, likely a variant of the German family name "Schiff."
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B.
Heideck
Heideck was a notable Philhellene, remembered for his support of the Greek cause during the Greek War of Independence.
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C.
Oberhauser
Oberhauser is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as sports, the arts, and public life.
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D.
Sperrle
Sperrle is a German surname most notably borne by Hugo Sperrle, a senior Luftwaffe field marshal during World War II.
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E.
Hauke
Hauke is a Germanic given name, particularly common in Northern Germany, that is cognate with the English name Hugh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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American singer ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| birthName |
Doris Mary Kappelhoff
ⓘ
linked to:
Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Kappelhoff ⓘ |
| givenName | Doris ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| middleName | Mary ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Doris Day
ⓘ
Doris Mary Kappelhoff ⓘ
linked to:
Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff
|
| notableFor |
film acting
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film acting ⓘ popular music recordings ⓘ popular music recordings ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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actress ⓘ singer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| stageName | Doris Day ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Doris Mary Kappelhoff
ⓘ
linked to:
Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff
|
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: Kappelhoff Description of subject: Kappelhoff is the original family surname of American actress and singer Doris Day, who was born Doris Mary Kappelhoff.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.