Dorothy McGuire
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Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorothy McGuire canonical | 21 |
| Ora Baxter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T100193 — 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: Dorothy McGuire Context triple: [Gentleman's Agreement, starring, Dorothy McGuire]
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Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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B.
Kathleen Courtney
Kathleen Courtney is the birth name of Kathy Hochul, the 57th governor of New York and the first woman to hold that office.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Estelle Getty
Estelle Getty was an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the sharp-tongued Sophia Petrillo on the television sitcom "The Golden Girls."
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E.
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers was an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her iconic film musicals with Fred Astaire during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
- 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: Dorothy McGuire Target entity description: Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
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A.
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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B.
Kathleen Courtney
Kathleen Courtney is the birth name of Kathy Hochul, the 57th governor of New York and the first woman to hold that office.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Estelle Getty
Estelle Getty was an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the sharp-tongued Sophia Petrillo on the television sitcom "The Golden Girls."
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E.
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers was an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her iconic film musicals with Fred Astaire during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Dorothy McGuire Description of subject: Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Kathy Lacey in Gentleman’s Agreement
subject linked to:
Katie Coates in Old Yeller
subject linked to:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
subject linked to:
Elizabeth in Gentleman's Agreement
subject linked to:
The Yearling (novel)
linked to: Dorothy McGuire