Florence Rabe
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Florence Rabe, better known by her stage name Florence Bates, was an American character actress prominent in Hollywood films of the 1940s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Florence Rabe canonical | 2 |
| Florence Rabe Sommer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8532836 — 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: Florence Rabe Context triple: [Florence Bates, birthName, Florence Rabe]
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A.
Myrna Smith
Myrna Smith was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded and toured with artists like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin.
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B.
Myrna Fahey
Myrna Fahey was an American actress known for her film and television roles in the 1950s and 1960s, often appearing in comedies and dramas.
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C.
Alathea Howard
Alathea Howard was an English noblewoman of the early 17th century, best known as the wife of Parliamentarian general Thomas Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
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D.
Vivian Moore
Vivian Moore is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Moore.
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E.
Gloria Blondell
Gloria Blondell was an American film, radio, and television actress of the mid-20th century, known for her character roles and as the younger sister of actress Joan Blondell.
- 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: Florence Rabe Target entity description: Florence Rabe, better known by her stage name Florence Bates, was an American character actress prominent in Hollywood films of the 1940s.
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A.
Myrna Smith
Myrna Smith was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded and toured with artists like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin.
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B.
Myrna Fahey
Myrna Fahey was an American actress known for her film and television roles in the 1950s and 1960s, often appearing in comedies and dramas.
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C.
Alathea Howard
Alathea Howard was an English noblewoman of the early 17th century, best known as the wife of Parliamentarian general Thomas Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
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D.
Vivian Moore
Vivian Moore is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Moore.
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E.
Gloria Blondell
Gloria Blondell was an American film, radio, and television actress of the mid-20th century, known for her character roles and as the younger sister of actress Joan Blondell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Florence Rabe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Florence Rabe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1888-04-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1954-01-31 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinema ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | Hollywood films of the 1940s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)
NERFINISHED
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I Remember Mama (1948 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Lucky (1943 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Town (1949 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Portrait of Jennie (1948 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebecca (1940 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Saratoga Trunk (1945 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Brasher Doubloon (1947 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Moon and Sixpence (1942 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret Garden (1949 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Antonio, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Florence Bates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Florence Rabe Description of subject: Florence Rabe, better known by her stage name Florence Bates, was an American character actress prominent in Hollywood films of the 1940s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Florence Rabe Sommer