Vera Lewis
E127589
Vera Lewis was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, known for her frequent supporting roles in Hollywood productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vera Lewis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216264 — 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: Vera Lewis Context triple: [The Iron Mask, stars, Vera Lewis]
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A.
Martha Vickers
Martha Vickers was an American film and television actress best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the classic noir film "The Big Sleep" (1946).
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B.
Joan Barclay
Joan Barclay was an American film actress known for her numerous roles in low-budget Westerns and B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Harriet Eckersall
Harriet Eckersall was the wife of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus.
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D.
Nora Barlow
Nora Barlow was a British botanist and editor best known as Charles Darwin’s granddaughter and for publishing and annotating key editions of his works and correspondence.
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E.
Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
- 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: Vera Lewis Target entity description: Vera Lewis was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, known for her frequent supporting roles in Hollywood productions.
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A.
Martha Vickers
Martha Vickers was an American film and television actress best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the classic noir film "The Big Sleep" (1946).
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B.
Joan Barclay
Joan Barclay was an American film actress known for her numerous roles in low-budget Westerns and B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Harriet Eckersall
Harriet Eckersall was the wife of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus.
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D.
Nora Barlow
Nora Barlow was a British botanist and editor best known as Charles Darwin’s granddaughter and for publishing and annotating key editions of his works and correspondence.
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E.
Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early sound film era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employedBy | Hollywood film industry ⓘ |
| familyName | Lewis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Vera ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Vera Lewis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Intolerance
ⓘ
The Birth of a Nation ⓘ The Blackbird ⓘ The Cat and the Canary ⓘ
linked to:
The Cat and the Canary (1939 film)
The Devil-Doll ⓘ The Old Maid ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| typeOfRole |
character roles
ⓘ
supporting roles ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Vera Lewis Description of subject: Vera Lewis was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, known for her frequent supporting roles in Hollywood productions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.