Ruth Taylor
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Ruth Taylor was an American film actress of the silent and early sound era, best remembered for her comedic roles in the late 1920s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ruth Taylor canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10371419 — 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: Ruth Taylor Context triple: [Buck Henry, mother, Ruth Taylor]
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A.
Ruth McNair
Ruth McNair is an Australian academic and general practitioner known for her advocacy and research in LGBTIQ+ health and inclusive primary care.
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B.
Ruth Rose
Ruth Rose was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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C.
Ruth Dalton
Ruth Dalton was a British Labour Party politician who briefly served as Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland in 1929, becoming one of the early female MPs in the UK.
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D.
Marguerite Roberts
Marguerite Roberts was a prominent American screenwriter known for her sharp dialogue and work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s, including the classic Western "True Grit."
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E.
Ruth Henshaw
Ruth Henshaw is a fictional character portrayed by American actress Frances Rafferty, likely in mid-20th-century film or television.
- 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: Ruth Taylor Target entity description: Ruth Taylor was an American film actress of the silent and early sound era, best remembered for her comedic roles in the late 1920s.
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A.
Ruth McNair
Ruth McNair is an Australian academic and general practitioner known for her advocacy and research in LGBTIQ+ health and inclusive primary care.
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B.
Ruth Rose
Ruth Rose was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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C.
Ruth Dalton
Ruth Dalton was a British Labour Party politician who briefly served as Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland in 1929, becoming one of the early female MPs in the UK.
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D.
Marguerite Roberts
Marguerite Roberts was a prominent American screenwriter known for her sharp dialogue and work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s, including the classic Western "True Grit."
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E.
Ruth Henshaw
Ruth Henshaw is a fictional character portrayed by American actress Frances Rafferty, likely in mid-20th-century film or television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| child | Buck Henry ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era |
early sound film era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| familyName | Taylor ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Ruth ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | comedic roles in late 1920s films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
silent film
ⓘ
sound film ⓘ |
| motherOf | Buck Henry ⓘ |
| name | Ruth Taylor ⓘ |
| notableFor | roles in late 1920s American comedies ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actress ⓘ |
| portrayed | Lorelei Lee ⓘ |
| relative | Buck Henry ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Paul Steinberg Zuckerman ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Ruth Taylor Description of subject: Ruth Taylor was an American film actress of the silent and early sound era, best remembered for her comedic roles in the late 1920s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.