Barbara Davis Sherry
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Barbara Davis Sherry was the daughter of legendary American actress Bette Davis and artist William Grant Sherry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Barbara Davis Sherry canonical | 5 |
| Barbara Davis Hyman | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8337325 — 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: Barbara Davis Sherry Context triple: [Ruth Elizabeth Davis, child, Barbara Davis Sherry]
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A.
Barbara Jean Davis
Barbara Jean Davis, better known as Norris Church Mailer, was an American novelist, memoirist, and former model who was married to writer Norman Mailer.
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B.
Sherry Palmer
Sherry Palmer is a fictional character from the television series "24," known as the ambitious and manipulative wife of Senator and later President David Palmer.
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C.
Sharon Ryer Davis
Sharon Ryer Davis is an American attorney and former First Lady of California, known for her public service and advocacy work during and after her husband Gray Davis’s governorship.
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D.
Susan Shipton
Susan Shipton is a Canadian film editor known for her work on numerous acclaimed feature films, including collaborations with prominent directors such as Atom Egoyan.
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E.
Barbara Cherry
Barbara Cherry was the wife of renowned German-American astronomer Martin Schwarzschild.
- 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: Barbara Davis Sherry Target entity description: Barbara Davis Sherry was the daughter of legendary American actress Bette Davis and artist William Grant Sherry.
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A.
Barbara Jean Davis
Barbara Jean Davis, better known as Norris Church Mailer, was an American novelist, memoirist, and former model who was married to writer Norman Mailer.
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B.
Sherry Palmer
Sherry Palmer is a fictional character from the television series "24," known as the ambitious and manipulative wife of Senator and later President David Palmer.
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C.
Sharon Ryer Davis
Sharon Ryer Davis is an American attorney and former First Lady of California, known for her public service and advocacy work during and after her husband Gray Davis’s governorship.
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D.
Susan Shipton
Susan Shipton is a Canadian film editor known for her work on numerous acclaimed feature films, including collaborations with prominent directors such as Atom Egoyan.
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E.
Barbara Cherry
Barbara Cherry was the wife of renowned German-American astronomer Martin Schwarzschild.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
B. D. Sherry
ⓘ
Barbara Sherry ⓘ |
| child |
Barbara Davis Sherry
ⓘ
Barbara Davis Sherry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-05-01 ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherry ⓘ |
| father | William Grant Sherry ⓘ |
| givenName | Barbara ⓘ |
| middleName | Davis ⓘ |
| mother | Bette Davis ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Bette Davis family ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Barbara Davis Sherry Description of subject: Barbara Davis Sherry was the daughter of legendary American actress Bette Davis and artist William Grant Sherry.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Barbara Davis Sherry
subject linked to:
Barbara Davis Sherry
subject linked to:
Barbara Davis Sherry
linked to: Barbara Davis Sherry
linked to: Barbara Davis Sherry