Penelope Penny Carroll
E792197
Penelope "Penny" Carroll is a character from the 1936 musical film "Never Gonna Dance," known as the charming romantic interest in the story’s dance-centered plot.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Penelope Penny Carroll canonical | 2 |
| Penelope Carroll | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9326778 — 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 Penny Carroll Context triple: [Never Gonna Dance, featuresCharacter, Penelope Penny Carroll]
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A.
Penelope Torday
Penelope Torday is known as the wife of the late British novelist Paul Torday, author of "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
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B.
Ada Clement
Ada Clement was an American pianist and influential music educator best known for co-founding and leading the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the early 20th century.
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C.
Erin Cressida Wilson
Erin Cressida Wilson is an American playwright, screenwriter, and professor known for her darkly psychological, character-driven scripts, including the adaptation of "The Girl on the Train."
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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.
Judy-Lynn del Rey
Judy-Lynn del Rey was an influential American science fiction editor and publisher who helped shape the modern genre through her leadership at Del Rey Books.
- 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 Penny Carroll Target entity description: Penelope "Penny" Carroll is a character from the 1936 musical film "Never Gonna Dance," known as the charming romantic interest in the story’s dance-centered plot.
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A.
Penelope Torday
Penelope Torday is known as the wife of the late British novelist Paul Torday, author of "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
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B.
Ada Clement
Ada Clement was an American pianist and influential music educator best known for co-founding and leading the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the early 20th century.
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C.
Erin Cressida Wilson
Erin Cressida Wilson is an American playwright, screenwriter, and professor known for her darkly psychological, character-driven scripts, including the adaptation of "The Girl on the Train."
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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.
Judy-Lynn del Rey
Judy-Lynn del Rey was an influential American science fiction editor and publisher who helped shape the modern genre through her leadership at Del Rey Books.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Never Gonna Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThemeContext | dance-centered plot ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| familyName | Carroll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Never Gonna Dance (film universe) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | musical film character ⓘ |
| givenName | Penelope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
protagonist
ⓘ
romantic interest ⓘ |
| nickname | Penny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | dancer ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1936 ⓘ |
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 Penny Carroll Description of subject: Penelope "Penny" Carroll is a character from the 1936 musical film "Never Gonna Dance," known as the charming romantic interest in the story’s dance-centered plot.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Penelope Carroll