Dorothy Tristan
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Dorothy Tristan was an American actress and screenwriter known for her work in independent films and her collaborations with director John D. Hancock.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy Tristan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10236475 — 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: Dorothy Tristan Context triple: [Weeds, screenwriter, Dorothy Tristan]
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A.
Dorothy Comingore
Dorothy Comingore was an American film actress best known for her acclaimed performance as Susan Alexander Kane in Orson Welles's classic film "Citizen Kane."
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B.
Dorothy Revier
Dorothy Revier was an American silent and early sound film actress known for her roles in adventure and drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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D.
Dorothy Bonvillion
Dorothy Bonvillion was the first wife of American country music singer George Jones, whom he married as a teenager before his rise to fame.
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E.
Dorothy Maijor
Dorothy Maijor was the wife of Richard Cromwell, the brief Lord Protector of England and son of Oliver Cromwell, placing her within the inner circle of mid-17th-century English political power.
- 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: Dorothy Tristan Target entity description: Dorothy Tristan was an American actress and screenwriter known for her work in independent films and her collaborations with director John D. Hancock.
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A.
Dorothy Comingore
Dorothy Comingore was an American film actress best known for her acclaimed performance as Susan Alexander Kane in Orson Welles's classic film "Citizen Kane."
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B.
Dorothy Revier
Dorothy Revier was an American silent and early sound film actress known for her roles in adventure and drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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D.
Dorothy Bonvillion
Dorothy Bonvillion was the first wife of American country music singer George Jones, whom he married as a teenager before his rise to fame.
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E.
Dorothy Maijor
Dorothy Maijor was the wife of Richard Cromwell, the brief Lord Protector of England and son of Oliver Cromwell, placing her within the inner circle of mid-17th-century English political power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | John D. Hancock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934-01-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-01-07 ⓘ |
| genre | independent film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor |
roles in independent films
ⓘ
screenplays for independent films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bang the Drum Slowly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
End of the Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Klute NERFINISHED ⓘ Rollercoaster NERFINISHED ⓘ The Looking Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ Weeds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Indiana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
La Porte NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | John D. Hancock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Bang the Drum Slowly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
End of the Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Klute NERFINISHED ⓘ Rollercoaster NERFINISHED ⓘ The Looking Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ Weeds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Dorothy Tristan Description of subject: Dorothy Tristan was an American actress and screenwriter known for her work in independent films and her collaborations with director John D. Hancock.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.