Evelyn Ankers
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Evelyn Ankers was a British-American actress best known as a leading lady in 1940s Universal horror films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Evelyn Ankers canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10811456 — 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: Evelyn Ankers Context triple: [The Wolf Man, castMember, Evelyn Ankers]
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A.
Evelyn Gardner
Evelyn Gardner was a British socialite best known as the first wife of novelist Evelyn Waugh and a figure in interwar London’s bohemian circles.
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B.
Evelyn Mase
Evelyn Mase was a South African nurse and the first wife of Nelson Mandela, with whom she had several children including Makgatho Mandela.
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C.
Eva Macklin
Eva Macklin was the wife of British Liberal politician and solicitor Isaac Foot.
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D.
Anita Waller
Anita Waller was the wife of famed American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller, associated with his personal life during the height of his musical career.
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E.
Evelyn Wade
Evelyn Wade was the wife of British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, known primarily in relation to his personal and intellectual life.
- 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: Evelyn Ankers Target entity description: Evelyn Ankers was a British-American actress best known as a leading lady in 1940s Universal horror films.
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A.
Evelyn Gardner
Evelyn Gardner was a British socialite best known as the first wife of novelist Evelyn Waugh and a figure in interwar London’s bohemian circles.
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B.
Evelyn Mase
Evelyn Mase was a South African nurse and the first wife of Nelson Mandela, with whom she had several children including Makgatho Mandela.
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C.
Eva Macklin
Eva Macklin was the wife of British Liberal politician and solicitor Isaac Foot.
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D.
Anita Waller
Anita Waller was the wife of famed American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller, associated with his personal life during the height of his musical career.
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E.
Evelyn Wade
Evelyn Wade was the wife of British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, known primarily in relation to his personal and intellectual life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British-American person
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsInFilm |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ |
| birthName | Evelyn Felisa Ankers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Maui, Hawaii, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cardiac arrest ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| co-starredWith |
Bela Lugosi
NERFINISHED
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Boris Karloff NERFINISHED ⓘ Claude Rains NERFINISHED ⓘ Lon Chaney Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Lon Chaney Jr. in "Son of Dracula" ⓘ Lon Chaney Jr. in "The Ghost of Frankenstein" ⓘ Lon Chaney Jr. in "The Wolf Man" ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Chile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1918-08-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1985-08-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | British ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| laterNationality | American ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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radio ⓘ |
| name | Evelyn Ankers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading lady in 1940s Universal horror films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
NERFINISHED
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ Son of Dracula NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ghost of Frankenstein NERFINISHED ⓘ The Invisible Man's Revenge NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mad Ghoul NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wolf Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Weird Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Valparaíso, Chile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Maui, Hawaii, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Richard Denning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedFor | Universal Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Evelyn Ankers Description of subject: Evelyn Ankers was a British-American actress best known as a leading lady in 1940s Universal horror films.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States
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Evelyn Ankers
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