Ruby Dandridge
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Ruby Dandridge was an American actress and radio performer best known for her character roles in film and for being the mother of pioneering Hollywood star Dorothy Dandridge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ruby Dandridge canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8500445 — 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: Ruby Dandridge Context triple: [Dorothy Dandridge, mother, Ruby Dandridge]
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A.
Eva Dandridge
Eva Dandridge is the strict, no-nonsense older sister whose controlling nature over her siblings’ lives drives the romantic conflict and comedy in the film "Deliver Us from Eva."
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B.
Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge was a pioneering African American actress and singer, best known as the first Black woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1954 film "Carmen Jones."
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C.
Frances Jones Dandridge
Frances Jones Dandridge was a Virginia colonial gentlewoman best known as the mother of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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D.
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett was a colonial Virginia woman of the prominent Dandridge family, connected by kinship to early American political and planter elites.
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E.
Janice McNair
Janice McNair is an American businesswoman and sports executive best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
- 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: Ruby Dandridge Target entity description: Ruby Dandridge was an American actress and radio performer best known for her character roles in film and for being the mother of pioneering Hollywood star Dorothy Dandridge.
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A.
Eva Dandridge
Eva Dandridge is the strict, no-nonsense older sister whose controlling nature over her siblings’ lives drives the romantic conflict and comedy in the film "Deliver Us from Eva."
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B.
Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge was a pioneering African American actress and singer, best known as the first Black woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1954 film "Carmen Jones."
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C.
Frances Jones Dandridge
Frances Jones Dandridge was a Virginia colonial gentlewoman best known as the mother of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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D.
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett was a colonial Virginia woman of the prominent Dandridge family, connected by kinship to early American political and planter elites.
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E.
Janice McNair
Janice McNair is an American businesswoman and sports executive best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
actress ⓘ human ⓘ radio performer ⓘ |
| child |
Dorothy Dandridge
ⓘ
Vivian Dandridge ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Dandridge ⓘ |
| givenName | Ruby ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Dorothy Dandridge
ⓘ
Vivian Dandridge ⓘ |
| name | Ruby Dandridge ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of Dorothy Dandridge
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character roles in film ⓘ radio performances ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Cyril Dandridge
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Dorothy Dandridge ⓘ Vivian Dandridge ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
radio performer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Cyril Dandridge ⓘ |
| workedIn |
American radio
ⓘ
Hollywood film industry ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood films
|
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: Ruby Dandridge Description of subject: Ruby Dandridge was an American actress and radio performer best known for her character roles in film and for being the mother of pioneering Hollywood star Dorothy Dandridge.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.