Doris Nolan
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Doris Nolan was an American stage and film actress best known for her role in the classic 1940 romantic comedy "Holiday."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Doris Nolan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8948353 — 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: Doris Nolan Context triple: [Alexander Knox, spouse, Doris Nolan]
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A.
Doris Dowling
Doris Dowling was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in classic 1940s noir and drama films.
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B.
Francie Nolan
Francie Nolan is the introspective, resilient young heroine and narrator of Betty Smith’s novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," growing up in poverty in early 20th-century Brooklyn.
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C.
Peggy Moran
Peggy Moran was an American film actress of the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for her roles in B-movies and for being commemorated in a statue featured in several films directed by her husband, Henry Koster.
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D.
Nora Mellon
Nora Mellon was a member of the prominent Mellon family after whom the industrial town of Donora, Pennsylvania, was named.
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E.
Doris Rich
Doris Rich was the wife of American character actor John Carradine, known primarily for her marriage to the prolific film and stage performer.
- 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: Doris Nolan Target entity description: Doris Nolan was an American stage and film actress best known for her role in the classic 1940 romantic comedy "Holiday."
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A.
Doris Dowling
Doris Dowling was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in classic 1940s noir and drama films.
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B.
Francie Nolan
Francie Nolan is the introspective, resilient young heroine and narrator of Betty Smith’s novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," growing up in poverty in early 20th-century Brooklyn.
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C.
Peggy Moran
Peggy Moran was an American film actress of the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for her roles in B-movies and for being commemorated in a statue featured in several films directed by her husband, Henry Koster.
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D.
Nora Mellon
Nora Mellon was a member of the prominent Mellon family after whom the industrial town of Donora, Pennsylvania, was named.
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E.
Doris Rich
Doris Rich was the wife of American character actor John Carradine, known primarily for her marriage to the prolific film and stage performer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century American cinema
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20th-century American theatre ⓘ |
| appearedIn | Holiday ⓘ |
| artisticDiscipline | acting ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| co-starredWith |
Cary Grant
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Katharine Hepburn ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | performing arts ⓘ |
| genre | romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| knownAs | American stage and film actress ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| name | Doris Nolan ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the 1940 film Holiday ⓘ |
| notableGenre | romantic comedy ⓘ |
| notableWork | Holiday ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hollywood Golden Age era
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linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
|
| typeOfArtist |
screen actor
ⓘ
stage actor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Doris Nolan Description of subject: Doris Nolan was an American stage and film actress best known for her role in the classic 1940 romantic comedy "Holiday."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.