Margaret O'Brien
E136718
Margaret O'Brien is an American former child actress best known for her acclaimed performances in 1940s films such as "Meet Me in St. Louis."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margaret O'Brien canonical | 27 |
| Margaret O’Brien | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T984573 — 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: Margaret O'Brien Context triple: [Academy Juvenile Award, notableRecipient, Margaret O'Brien]
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A.
Lulie Swanson
Lulie Swanson was the woman who served as the sponsor for the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) at its launching ceremony.
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B.
Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour was an American actress and singer best known for her roles in the "Road to..." comedy films alongside Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
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C.
Billie Dove
Billie Dove was a popular American silent film actress of the 1920s, celebrated for her beauty and leading roles in romantic and adventure films.
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D.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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E.
Helene Costello
Helene Costello was an American film actress of the silent and early sound era, known for her roles in numerous 1920s 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: Margaret O'Brien Target entity description: Margaret O'Brien is an American former child actress best known for her acclaimed performances in 1940s films such as "Meet Me in St. Louis."
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A.
Lulie Swanson
Lulie Swanson was the woman who served as the sponsor for the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) at its launching ceremony.
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B.
Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour was an American actress and singer best known for her roles in the "Road to..." comedy films alongside Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
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C.
Billie Dove
Billie Dove was a popular American silent film actress of the 1920s, celebrated for her beauty and leading roles in romantic and adventure films.
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D.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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E.
Helene Costello
Helene Costello was an American film actress of the silent and early sound era, known for her roles in numerous 1920s productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Margaret O'Brien Description of subject: Margaret O'Brien is an American former child actress best known for her acclaimed performances in 1940s films such as "Meet Me in St. Louis."
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Margaret O'Brien
subject linked to:
Marljorie Main
subject linked to:
Elizabeth
subject linked to:
Harold Allen, Jr.
subject linked to:
Harold Allen, Jr.