Joan Lorring
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Joan Lorring was a Hong Kong–born American actress best known for her acclaimed film and television roles in the 1940s and 1950s, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "The Corn Is Green."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joan Lorring canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8685082 — 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: Joan Lorring Context triple: [The Verdict, starring, Joan Lorring]
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A.
Lynn Hendee
Lynn Hendee is a film producer known for her work on independent and character-driven movies such as "The Ballad of Jack and Rose."
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B.
Judy Loe
Judy Loe is an English actress known for her work in British television and theatre and as the mother of actress Kate Beckinsale.
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C.
Joan Towne
Joan Towne was a 17th-century New England woman known primarily as the mother of Sarah Towne Cloyce, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Jane Loring
Jane Loring was a film editor known for her work in early 20th-century American cinema.
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E.
Joan Foster
Joan Foster is the complex, identity-shifting protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "Lady Oracle," known for her secret life as a gothic romance writer and her struggle to escape her past.
- 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: Joan Lorring Target entity description: Joan Lorring was a Hong Kong–born American actress best known for her acclaimed film and television roles in the 1940s and 1950s, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "The Corn Is Green."
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A.
Lynn Hendee
Lynn Hendee is a film producer known for her work on independent and character-driven movies such as "The Ballad of Jack and Rose."
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B.
Judy Loe
Judy Loe is an English actress known for her work in British television and theatre and as the mother of actress Kate Beckinsale.
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C.
Joan Towne
Joan Towne was a 17th-century New England woman known primarily as the mother of Sarah Towne Cloyce, one of the women accused during the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Jane Loring
Jane Loring was a film editor known for her work in early 20th-century American cinema.
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E.
Joan Foster
Joan Foster is the complex, identity-shifting protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "Lady Oracle," known for her secret life as a gothic romance writer and her struggle to escape her past.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsInCareer |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Joan Lorring Ellis
NERFINISHED
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Mary Lorring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary Magdalene Ellis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1926-04-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014-05-30 ⓘ |
| emigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Joan Lorring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Corn Is Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
NERFINISHED
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Nero Wolfe (1979 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Song of Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Night NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bridge of San Luis Rey NERFINISHED ⓘ The Corn Is Green NERFINISHED ⓘ The F.B.I. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fugitive NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lost Moment NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love Boat NERFINISHED ⓘ The Star NERFINISHED ⓘ The Verdict NERFINISHED ⓘ Three Strangers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ radio actress ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Martin Sonenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Bette Davis
NERFINISHED
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John Huston NERFINISHED ⓘ Sydney Greenstreet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfAwardNomination | 1946 ⓘ |
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: Joan Lorring Description of subject: Joan Lorring was a Hong Kong–born American actress best known for her acclaimed film and television roles in the 1940s and 1950s, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "The Corn Is Green."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.