Edith Gardener Shearn
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Edith Gardener Shearn was the wife of Swedish-American actor Warner Oland, best known for his portrayals of Charlie Chan and other Asian characters in early Hollywood films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edith Gardener Shearn canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9940510 — 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: Edith Gardener Shearn Context triple: [Warner Oland, spouse, Edith Gardener Shearn]
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A.
Edith Shearer
Edith Shearer was the mother of Canadian-born actress Athole Shearer and part of the family that produced several notable figures in early Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Edith Harrison
Edith Harrison was the wife of British inventor and early motion picture pioneer William Friese-Greene.
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C.
Edith Jenkins
Edith Jenkins is known primarily as the wife of British civil engineer Sir John Bradfield.
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D.
Edith Luckett
Edith Luckett was an American stage actress best known as the mother of Nancy Reagan, the future First Lady of the United States.
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E.
Edith Evanson
Edith Evanson was an American character actress known for her supporting roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including several Alfred Hitchcock movies.
- 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: Edith Gardener Shearn Target entity description: Edith Gardener Shearn was the wife of Swedish-American actor Warner Oland, best known for his portrayals of Charlie Chan and other Asian characters in early Hollywood films.
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A.
Edith Shearer
Edith Shearer was the mother of Canadian-born actress Athole Shearer and part of the family that produced several notable figures in early Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Edith Harrison
Edith Harrison was the wife of British inventor and early motion picture pioneer William Friese-Greene.
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C.
Edith Jenkins
Edith Jenkins is known primarily as the wife of British civil engineer Sir John Bradfield.
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D.
Edith Luckett
Edith Luckett was an American stage actress best known as the mother of Nancy Reagan, the future First Lady of the United States.
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E.
Edith Evanson
Edith Evanson was an American character actress known for her supporting roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including several Alfred Hitchcock movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swedish-American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ spouse of a celebrity ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Sweden
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Edith Gardener Shearn ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of actor Warner Oland
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portrayals of Asian characters in early Hollywood films ⓘ portrayals of Charlie Chan in early Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork | Charlie Chan film series ⓘ |
| spouse |
Edith Gardener Shearn
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Warner Oland ⓘ |
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: Edith Gardener Shearn Description of subject: Edith Gardener Shearn was the wife of Swedish-American actor Warner Oland, best known for his portrayals of Charlie Chan and other Asian characters in early Hollywood films.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.