Helen Cecilia Travolta
E1003604
Helen Cecilia Travolta was the mother of actor John Travolta and was known for her work as an actress and drama teacher.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Helen Cecilia Travolta canonical | 4 |
| Margaret Travolta | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12839959 — 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: Helen Cecilia Travolta Context triple: [John Travolta, parent, Helen Cecilia Travolta]
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A.
Tish Cyrus
Tish Cyrus is an American manager and producer best known as the mother and longtime career overseer of singer and actress Miley Cyrus.
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B.
Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy was an American actress known for her versatile performances in films such as "Clueless," "8 Mile," and "Girl, Interrupted."
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C.
Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie is an American television personality, fashion designer, and actress who rose to fame on the reality series "The Simple Life" alongside Paris Hilton.
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D.
Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton is an American media personality, socialite, businesswoman, DJ, and reality TV star who rose to fame in the early 2000s and became a pop culture icon.
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E.
Tia Carrere
Tia Carrere is a Hawaiian-born American actress, singer, and former model best known for her roles in "Wayne's World," "True Lies," and various voice performances in animated films and series.
- 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: Helen Cecilia Travolta Target entity description: Helen Cecilia Travolta was the mother of actor John Travolta and was known for her work as an actress and drama teacher.
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A.
Tish Cyrus
Tish Cyrus is an American manager and producer best known as the mother and longtime career overseer of singer and actress Miley Cyrus.
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B.
Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy was an American actress known for her versatile performances in films such as "Clueless," "8 Mile," and "Girl, Interrupted."
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C.
Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie is an American television personality, fashion designer, and actress who rose to fame on the reality series "The Simple Life" alongside Paris Hilton.
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D.
Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton is an American media personality, socialite, businesswoman, DJ, and reality TV star who rose to fame in the early 2000s and became a pop culture icon.
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E.
Tia Carrere
Tia Carrere is a Hawaiian-born American actress, singer, and former model best known for her roles in "Wayne's World," "True Lies," and various voice performances in animated films and series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
drama teacher ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child | John Travolta ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Travolta ⓘ |
| givenName | Helen ⓘ |
| middleName | Cecilia ⓘ |
| mother | Helen Cecilia Travolta ⓘ |
| notableWork | teaching drama ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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drama teacher ⓘ |
| 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: Helen Cecilia Travolta Description of subject: Helen Cecilia Travolta was the mother of actor John Travolta and was known for her work as an actress and drama teacher.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.