Jane Osgood
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Jane Osgood is the plucky small-town widow and lobster business owner who battles a powerful railroad company in the 1959 romantic comedy film "It Happened to Jane."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jane Osgood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7354178 — 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: Jane Osgood Context triple: [It Happened to Jane, mainCharacter, Jane Osgood]
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A.
Mary Robbins
Mary Robbins is known as the mother of American actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins.
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B.
Elizabeth McCord
Elizabeth McCord is the principled and pragmatic U.S. Secretary of State at the center of the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known for her diplomatic skill and moral conviction.
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C.
Elizabeth McDowell
Elizabeth McDowell was the wife of American Regionalist painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton.
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D.
Elizabeth Snodgrass
Elizabeth Snodgrass is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Snodgrass surname.
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E.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
- 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: Jane Osgood Target entity description: Jane Osgood is the plucky small-town widow and lobster business owner who battles a powerful railroad company in the 1959 romantic comedy film "It Happened to Jane."
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A.
Mary Robbins
Mary Robbins is known as the mother of American actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins.
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B.
Elizabeth McCord
Elizabeth McCord is the principled and pragmatic U.S. Secretary of State at the center of the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known for her diplomatic skill and moral conviction.
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C.
Elizabeth McDowell
Elizabeth McDowell was the wife of American Regionalist painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton.
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D.
Elizabeth Snodgrass
Elizabeth Snodgrass is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Snodgrass surname.
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E.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| ally |
George Denham
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Her children ⓘ |
| appearsIn | It Happened to Jane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
community solidarity
ⓘ
female entrepreneurship ⓘ small business versus big corporation ⓘ widowhood and starting over ⓘ |
| businessType | lobster shipping business ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
determined
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independent ⓘ plucky ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| conflict | battle with a powerful railroad company ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Max Wilk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Norman Katkov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | It Happened to Jane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographic | single mother ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWorkAppearedIn | Richard Quine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmStudioOfWorkAppearedIn | Columbia Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Billy Osgood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Julie Osgood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| legalAction | lawsuit against the railroad company ⓘ |
| mainAdversary |
Eastern & Portland Railroad Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Foster Malone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widow ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableAction | sues the railroad for damages to her lobster shipment ⓘ |
| notableScene | commandeers a train to ship her lobsters ⓘ |
| occupation |
lobster business owner
ⓘ
small business owner ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | small town in Maine ⓘ |
| romanticInterest | George Denham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Cape Anne, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizes | the struggle of small-town individuals against big business ⓘ |
| targetOfCorporatePressure | Eastern & Portland Railroad Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | 1950s ⓘ |
| transportModeInConflict | railroad ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 1959 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jane Osgood Description of subject: Jane Osgood is the plucky small-town widow and lobster business owner who battles a powerful railroad company in the 1959 romantic comedy film "It Happened to Jane."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.