Kathleen McCormack Durst
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Kathleen McCormack Durst was an American medical student who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in 1982, a case that later became central to the high-profile investigations and media coverage surrounding her husband, real estate heir Robert Durst.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kathleen McCormack Durst canonical | 2 |
| Kathie Durst | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8160270 — 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: Kathleen McCormack Durst Context triple: [Robert Durst, spouse, Kathleen McCormack Durst]
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A.
Christina Mesmer Griffith
Christina Mesmer Griffith was the wife of Welsh-American industrialist and philanthropist Griffith J. Griffith, known for his major land donation that became Los Angeles’s Griffith Park.
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B.
Julie Cobb
Julie Cobb is an American actress known for her numerous television and film roles from the 1960s onward, including appearances on shows like "Star Trek" and "Charles in Charge."
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C.
Karla DeVito
Karla DeVito is an American singer and actress best known for her work in rock music and musical theatre, including touring and performing with major artists in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Joanna Cassidy
Joanna Cassidy is an American actress best known for her roles in films like Blade Runner and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as well as numerous television appearances.
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E.
Marla Singer
Marla Singer is a nihilistic, self-destructive woman whose chaotic relationship with the narrator becomes central to the psychological and thematic unraveling of Fight Club.
- 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: Kathleen McCormack Durst Target entity description: Kathleen McCormack Durst was an American medical student who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in 1982, a case that later became central to the high-profile investigations and media coverage surrounding her husband, real estate heir Robert Durst.
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A.
Christina Mesmer Griffith
Christina Mesmer Griffith was the wife of Welsh-American industrialist and philanthropist Griffith J. Griffith, known for his major land donation that became Los Angeles’s Griffith Park.
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B.
Julie Cobb
Julie Cobb is an American actress known for her numerous television and film roles from the 1960s onward, including appearances on shows like "Star Trek" and "Charles in Charge."
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C.
Karla DeVito
Karla DeVito is an American singer and actress best known for her work in rock music and musical theatre, including touring and performing with major artists in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Joanna Cassidy
Joanna Cassidy is an American actress best known for her roles in films like Blade Runner and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as well as numerous television appearances.
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E.
Marla Singer
Marla Singer is a nihilistic, self-destructive woman whose chaotic relationship with the narrator becomes central to the psychological and thematic unraveling of Fight Club.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
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: Kathleen McCormack Durst Description of subject: Kathleen McCormack Durst was an American medical student who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in 1982, a case that later became central to the high-profile investigations and media coverage surrounding her husband, real estate heir Robert Durst.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kathleen McCormack Durst