Dora Bland
E931875
Dora Bland, better known by her stage name Dorothea Jordan, was a celebrated 18th–19th century Anglo-Irish actress and comedian who became one of the most famous performers of the Georgian era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dora Bland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11520775 — 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: Dora Bland Context triple: [Dorothea Jordan, alsoKnownAs, Dora Bland]
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A.
Dora Russell
Dora Russell was a British feminist, author, and social reformer known for her advocacy of women's rights, sexual freedom, and progressive education in the 20th century.
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B.
Dora Strang
Dora Strang is a character in Peter Shaffer's play "Equus," portrayed as the deeply religious mother of the troubled teenager Alan Strang.
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C.
Winifred Dartie
Winifred Dartie is a character in John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga, depicted as a member of the Forsyte family whose troubled marriage and personal loyalties reflect the social and emotional constraints of upper-middle-class Victorian England.
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D.
Dora Wheeler
Dora Wheeler was an American painter and illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her portraits and decorative work.
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E.
Dora Gray Duncan
Dora Gray Duncan was the mother of pioneering American modern dancer Isadora Duncan and played a formative role in her early life and artistic development.
- 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: Dora Bland Target entity description: Dora Bland, better known by her stage name Dorothea Jordan, was a celebrated 18th–19th century Anglo-Irish actress and comedian who became one of the most famous performers of the Georgian era.
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A.
Dora Russell
Dora Russell was a British feminist, author, and social reformer known for her advocacy of women's rights, sexual freedom, and progressive education in the 20th century.
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B.
Dora Strang
Dora Strang is a character in Peter Shaffer's play "Equus," portrayed as the deeply religious mother of the troubled teenager Alan Strang.
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C.
Winifred Dartie
Winifred Dartie is a character in John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga, depicted as a member of the Forsyte family whose troubled marriage and personal loyalties reflect the social and emotional constraints of upper-middle-class Victorian England.
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D.
Dora Wheeler
Dora Wheeler was an American painter and illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her portraits and decorative work.
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E.
Dora Gray Duncan
Dora Gray Duncan was the mother of pioneering American modern dancer Isadora Duncan and played a formative role in her early life and artistic development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Georgian era actress
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comedian ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mrs Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1761-11-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Kingdom of Ireland
NERFINISHED
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Waterford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Saint-Cloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| childrenCountWithRichardFord | 3 ⓘ |
| childrenCountWithUnknownEarlierRelationship | 1 ⓘ |
| childrenCountWithWilliamDukeOfClarence | 10 ⓘ |
| childrenWith |
Richard Ford
NERFINISHED
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William, Duke of Clarence NERFINISHED ⓘ unknown earlier relationship ⓘ |
| citizenship | British ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1816-07-05 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
France
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Saint-Cloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs | celebrated Anglo-Irish actress and comedian ⓘ |
| era | Georgian era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Anglo-Irish ⓘ |
| father | Francis Bland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasRelative | William IV of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later 19th-century comic actresses ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Grace Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Georgian theatre ⓘ |
| name | Dora Bland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Georgian theatre performances
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comic acting ⓘ |
| notableRole | comic heroines in Shakespearean plays ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 14 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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comedian ⓘ |
| partner |
Richard Ford
NERFINISHED
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William IV of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ William, Duke of Clarence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedAt |
Covent Garden Theatre
NERFINISHED
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Drury Lane Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| stageName | Dorothea Jordan 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: Dora Bland Description of subject: Dora Bland, better known by her stage name Dorothea Jordan, was a celebrated 18th–19th century Anglo-Irish actress and comedian who became one of the most famous performers of the Georgian era.
Referenced by (1)
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