Penelope Butler
E738337
Penelope Butler is known as the former spouse of British actor Ben Cross, recognized for his role in the film "Chariots of Fire."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Penelope Butler canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8391511 — 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: Penelope Butler Context triple: [Ben Cross, spouse, Penelope Butler]
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A.
Maria Ewing
Maria Ewing was an acclaimed American opera singer and actress known for her intense dramatic presence and versatile mezzo-soprano and soprano roles on major international stages.
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B.
Elizabeth Hartnett
Elizabeth Hartnett is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hartnett surname, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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C.
Beatrice Gardner
Beatrice Gardner was the sister of American film star Ava Gardner and a member of the Gardner family from North Carolina.
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D.
Penelope Barker
Penelope Barker was an American Revolutionary-era political activist best known for organizing and leading the 1774 Edenton Tea Party, one of the earliest recorded women’s political protests in the American colonies.
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E.
Penelope Allen
Penelope Allen is an American actress best known for her supporting role in the 1975 crime drama film "Dog Day Afternoon."
- 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: Penelope Butler Target entity description: Penelope Butler is known as the former spouse of British actor Ben Cross, recognized for his role in the film "Chariots of Fire."
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A.
Maria Ewing
Maria Ewing was an acclaimed American opera singer and actress known for her intense dramatic presence and versatile mezzo-soprano and soprano roles on major international stages.
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B.
Elizabeth Hartnett
Elizabeth Hartnett is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hartnett surname, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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C.
Beatrice Gardner
Beatrice Gardner was the sister of American film star Ava Gardner and a member of the Gardner family from North Carolina.
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D.
Penelope Barker
Penelope Barker was an American Revolutionary-era political activist best known for organizing and leading the 1774 Edenton Tea Party, one of the earliest recorded women’s political protests in the American colonies.
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E.
Penelope Allen
Penelope Allen is an American actress best known for her supporting role in the 1975 crime drama film "Dog Day Afternoon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the former spouse of British actor Ben Cross ⓘ |
| notableWork | Chariots of Fire ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| spouse | Ben Cross ⓘ |
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: Penelope Butler Description of subject: Penelope Butler is known as the former spouse of British actor Ben Cross, recognized for his role in the film "Chariots of Fire."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.