Shirley Booth
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Shirley Booth was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in the film "Come Back, Little Sheba" and her Emmy-winning role on the television series "Hazel."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shirley Booth canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9329708 — 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: Shirley Booth Context triple: [Terry Moore, workedWith, Shirley Booth]
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A.
Carol Channing
Carol Channing was a Tony Award–winning American actress and singer best known for originating the role of Dolly Levi in the Broadway musical "Hello, Dolly!"
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B.
Polly Bergen
Polly Bergen was an American actress and singer known for her work in film, television, and theater, including a prominent role in the 1962 thriller "Cape Fear."
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C.
Anne Gwynne
Anne Gwynne was a popular American film and television actress of the 1940s, often remembered as one of the earliest "scream queens" in horror cinema.
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D.
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes was an acclaimed American actress often called the "First Lady of the American Theatre," whose career spanned stage, film, and television and earned her multiple major awards.
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E.
Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon was an American actress and screenwriter renowned for her late-career film roles, particularly in "Rosemary's Baby" and "Harold and Maude."
- 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: Shirley Booth Target entity description: Shirley Booth was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in the film "Come Back, Little Sheba" and her Emmy-winning role on the television series "Hazel."
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A.
Carol Channing
Carol Channing was a Tony Award–winning American actress and singer best known for originating the role of Dolly Levi in the Broadway musical "Hello, Dolly!"
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B.
Polly Bergen
Polly Bergen was an American actress and singer known for her work in film, television, and theater, including a prominent role in the 1962 thriller "Cape Fear."
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C.
Anne Gwynne
Anne Gwynne was a popular American film and television actress of the 1940s, often remembered as one of the earliest "scream queens" in horror cinema.
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D.
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes was an acclaimed American actress often called the "First Lady of the American Theatre," whose career spanned stage, film, and television and earned her multiple major awards.
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E.
Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon was an American actress and screenwriter renowned for her late-career film roles, particularly in "Rosemary's Baby" and "Harold and Maude."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Shirley Booth Ford
NERFINISHED
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Thelma Booth Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Actress
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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Marjory Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Flushing
NERFINISHED
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Mount Hebron Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ Queens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1898-08-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1992-10-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | P.S. 152 (New York City) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Shirley Booth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
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About Mrs. Leslie NERFINISHED ⓘ Come Back, Little Sheba NERFINISHED ⓘ Hazel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Matchmaker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| performedIn |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (play)
NERFINISHED
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About Mrs. Leslie (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Come Back, Little Sheba (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Come Back, Little Sheba (stage play) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hazel (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hot Spell (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Glass Menagerie (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Matchmaker (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
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North Chatham NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | North Chatham, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ed Gardner
NERFINISHED
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William H. Baker Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1920s–1970s ⓘ |
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: Shirley Booth Description of subject: Shirley Booth was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in the film "Come Back, Little Sheba" and her Emmy-winning role on the television series "Hazel."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Philadelphia Story (Broadway production)