Ursula Thiess
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Ursula Thiess was a German-born film actress and model who appeared in European and Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ursula Thiess canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9392269 — 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: Ursula Thiess Context triple: [Robert Taylor, spouse, Ursula Thiess]
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A.
Rotraut Uecker
Rotraut Uecker is a German-born artist and sculptor known for her vibrant abstract works and for being the widow and artistic collaborator of French avant-garde artist Yves Klein.
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B.
Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf was a prominent East German writer and essayist known for her introspective, politically engaged novels such as "Cassandra" and "Patterns of Childhood."
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C.
Birgit Stein
Birgit Stein was a German actress and stuntwoman known for her work in film and television and for her marriage to actor Jürgen Prochnow.
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D.
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann is a contemporary German-language novelist best known internationally for his bestselling historical novel "Measuring the World."
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E.
Luise Maas
Luise Maas was the wife of renowned German architect Erich Mendelsohn and is noted for her close association with his life and work.
- 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: Ursula Thiess Target entity description: Ursula Thiess was a German-born film actress and model who appeared in European and Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Rotraut Uecker
Rotraut Uecker is a German-born artist and sculptor known for her vibrant abstract works and for being the widow and artistic collaborator of French avant-garde artist Yves Klein.
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B.
Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf was a prominent East German writer and essayist known for her introspective, politically engaged novels such as "Cassandra" and "Patterns of Childhood."
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C.
Birgit Stein
Birgit Stein was a German actress and stuntwoman known for her work in film and television and for her marriage to actor Jürgen Prochnow.
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D.
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann is a contemporary German-language novelist best known internationally for his bestselling historical novel "Measuring the World."
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E.
Luise Maas
Luise Maas was the wife of renowned German architect Erich Mendelsohn and is noted for her close association with his life and work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
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human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| birthName | Ursula Schmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| child |
Manuela Thiess
NERFINISHED
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Terry Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Tessa Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1924-05-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2010-06-19 ⓘ |
| describedAs | German-born film actress and model ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| name | Ursula Thiess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bandido
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jungle Moon Men NERFINISHED ⓘ Monsoon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil Makes Three NERFINISHED ⓘ The Iron Glove NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
model ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hamburg, Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Burbank, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
George Thiess
NERFINISHED
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Robert Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Taylor (married 1954) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
European cinema
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Hollywood cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ursula Thiess Description of subject: Ursula Thiess was a German-born film actress and model who appeared in European and Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.