Geer
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Geer is a surname most notably associated with American actress and theatre director Ellen Geer and her family of performers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Geer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11684192 — 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: Geer Context triple: [Ellen Geer, familyName, Geer]
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A.
Gemer
Gemer is a historical and geographical region in southern Slovakia known for its mining heritage, medieval castles, and karst landscapes.
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B.
Gery
Gery is a spelling variant of the given name Gerry, typically used as a personal name.
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C.
Godfried
Godfried is the given name of Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, a prominent Roman Catholic prelate and former Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels.
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D.
Gorell
Gorell is the middle name of Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner, a British computer scientist known for his work in process calculi and concurrency theory.
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E.
Gevaot
Gevaot is an Israeli settlement in the Gush Etzion bloc of the West Bank, known for its strategic location and political significance in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
- 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: Geer Target entity description: Geer is a surname most notably associated with American actress and theatre director Ellen Geer and her family of performers.
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A.
Gemer
Gemer is a historical and geographical region in southern Slovakia known for its mining heritage, medieval castles, and karst landscapes.
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B.
Gery
Gery is a spelling variant of the given name Gerry, typically used as a personal name.
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C.
Godfried
Godfried is the given name of Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, a prominent Roman Catholic prelate and former Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels.
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D.
Gorell
Gorell is the middle name of Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner, a British computer scientist known for his work in process calculi and concurrency theory.
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E.
Gevaot
Gevaot is an Israeli settlement in the Gush Etzion bloc of the West Bank, known for its strategic location and political significance in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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American actress ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ theatre company ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| artisticDirector | Ellen Geer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Ellen Geer
NERFINISHED
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Kate Geer NERFINISHED ⓘ Thad Geer NERFINISHED ⓘ Willow Geer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1902-03-09
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1941-08-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1978-04-22 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Geer
NERFINISHED
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Geer NERFINISHED ⓘ Geer NERFINISHED ⓘ Geer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Will Geer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Ellen
NERFINISHED
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Will NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Topanga Canyon, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Ellen Geer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Clear and Present Danger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harold and Maude NERFINISHED ⓘ The Patriot NERFINISHED ⓘ The Waltons NERFINISHED ⓘ The Waltons NERFINISHED ⓘ Theatre work at Theatricum Botanicum ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actor
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film actress ⓘ stage actor ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actor ⓘ television actress ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| parent |
Will Geer
NERFINISHED
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Will Geer NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Geer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Frankfort, Indiana
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Peter Alsop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAs | surname in the United States ⓘ |
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: Geer Description of subject: Geer is a surname most notably associated with American actress and theatre director Ellen Geer and her family of performers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.