Kathleen O’Rourke
E881551
Kathleen O’Rourke is best known as the mother of child actress Heather O’Rourke, who starred in the "Poltergeist" film series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kathleen O’Rourke canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10706440 — 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: Kathleen O’Rourke Context triple: [Heather O’Rourke, mother, Kathleen O’Rourke]
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A.
Dolores Keane
Dolores Keane is an acclaimed Irish folk singer known for her powerful, emotive voice and influential role in the traditional Irish music revival.
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B.
Orla Fitzgerald
Orla Fitzgerald is an Irish actress best known for her role in the historical drama film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley."
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C.
Virginia O'Connor
Virginia O'Connor was the wife of renowned American composer and conductor Henry Mancini.
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D.
Moyna Macgill
Moyna Macgill was an Irish-born stage and film actress of the early 20th century, best known today as the mother of actress Angela Lansbury.
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E.
Maeve Brennan
Maeve Brennan was a British librarian and writer best known as the longtime companion and muse of poet Philip Larkin.
- 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: Kathleen O’Rourke Target entity description: Kathleen O’Rourke is best known as the mother of child actress Heather O’Rourke, who starred in the "Poltergeist" film series.
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A.
Dolores Keane
Dolores Keane is an acclaimed Irish folk singer known for her powerful, emotive voice and influential role in the traditional Irish music revival.
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B.
Orla Fitzgerald
Orla Fitzgerald is an Irish actress best known for her role in the historical drama film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley."
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C.
Virginia O'Connor
Virginia O'Connor was the wife of renowned American composer and conductor Henry Mancini.
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D.
Moyna Macgill
Moyna Macgill was an Irish-born stage and film actress of the early 20th century, best known today as the mother of actress Angela Lansbury.
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E.
Maeve Brennan
Maeve Brennan was a British librarian and writer best known as the longtime companion and muse of poet Philip Larkin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Heather O’Rourke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| mother | Kathleen O’Rourke ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Heather O’Rourke ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Poltergeist
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Poltergeist II: The Other Side ⓘ Poltergeist III ⓘ |
| occupation | child actress ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Kathleen O’Rourke Description of subject: Kathleen O’Rourke is best known as the mother of child actress Heather O’Rourke, who starred in the "Poltergeist" film series.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Kathleen O’Rourke