Glynis Johns
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Glynis Johns was a British actress and singer known for her distinctive husky voice and roles in films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Court Jester," as well as her work on stage and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Glynis Johns canonical | 32 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T864378 — 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: Glynis Johns Context triple: [Cause Célèbre, notableCastMember, Glynis Johns]
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A.
Linda Gray
Linda Gray is the longtime wife of Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb, known for her enduring marriage to the music icon since the 1970s.
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B.
Karen Black
Karen Black was an American actress known for her distinctive roles in 1960s–1970s New Hollywood films such as "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," and "The Great Gatsby."
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C.
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead was an American actress renowned for her powerful character roles in film, radio, and television, notably in Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre and as Endora on the TV series "Bewitched."
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D.
Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter was an American actress known for her Academy Award–winning and nominated performances in classic films such as "The Razor's Edge," "All About Eve," and "The Ten Commandments."
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E.
Claire Bloom
Claire Bloom is an acclaimed English actress known for her distinguished stage and screen career, including prominent roles in classic films, television dramas, and Shakespearean productions.
- 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: Glynis Johns Target entity description: Glynis Johns was a British actress and singer known for her distinctive husky voice and roles in films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Court Jester," as well as her work on stage and television.
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A.
Linda Gray
Linda Gray is the longtime wife of Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb, known for her enduring marriage to the music icon since the 1970s.
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B.
Karen Black
Karen Black was an American actress known for her distinctive roles in 1960s–1970s New Hollywood films such as "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," and "The Great Gatsby."
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C.
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead was an American actress renowned for her powerful character roles in film, radio, and television, notably in Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre and as Endora on the TV series "Bewitched."
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D.
Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter was an American actress known for her Academy Award–winning and nominated performances in classic films such as "The Razor's Edge," "All About Eve," and "The Ten Commandments."
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E.
Claire Bloom
Claire Bloom is an acclaimed English actress known for her distinguished stage and screen career, including prominent roles in classic films, television dramas, and Shakespearean productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Glynis Johns Description of subject: Glynis Johns was a British actress and singer known for her distinctive husky voice and roles in films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Court Jester," as well as her work on stage and television.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins
subject linked to:
Disney film Mary Poppins
subject linked to:
The House That Dripped Blood (1971 film)