Joan Fontaine
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Joan Fontaine was a British-American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock’s "Suspicion" and her role in "Rebecca," making her one of classic Hollywood’s leading stars of the 1940s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joan Fontaine canonical | 66 |
| Jane Wharton – Joan Fontaine | 1 |
| Joan Fontaine won Academy Award for Best Actress for role | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1199866 — 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: Joan Fontaine Context triple: [Gunga Din, starredActor, Joan Fontaine]
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Alma Reville
Alma Reville was a British screenwriter, editor, and assistant director best known for her long creative collaboration with and marriage to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.
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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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C.
Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Lanchester was a British-born character actress best known for her eccentric and memorable roles in classic Hollywood films, including her iconic turn in "The Bride of Frankenstein."
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D.
Judith Anderson
Judith Anderson was an acclaimed Australian-born actress renowned for her powerful stage and screen performances, including her iconic role as Mrs. Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca."
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E.
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland was a British-American actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, renowned for her nuanced dramatic performances and two Academy Award-winning roles.
- 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: Joan Fontaine Target entity description: Joan Fontaine was a British-American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock’s "Suspicion" and her role in "Rebecca," making her one of classic Hollywood’s leading stars of the 1940s.
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A.
Alma Reville
Alma Reville was a British screenwriter, editor, and assistant director best known for her long creative collaboration with and marriage to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.
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B.
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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C.
Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Lanchester was a British-born character actress best known for her eccentric and memorable roles in classic Hollywood films, including her iconic turn in "The Bride of Frankenstein."
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D.
Judith Anderson
Judith Anderson was an acclaimed Australian-born actress renowned for her powerful stage and screen performances, including her iconic role as Mrs. Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca."
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E.
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland was a British-American actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, renowned for her nuanced dramatic performances and two Academy Award-winning roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Joan Fontaine Description of subject: Joan Fontaine was a British-American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock’s "Suspicion" and her role in "Rebecca," making her one of classic Hollywood’s leading stars of the 1940s.
Referenced by (68)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Women
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth
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Joan Fontaine won Academy Award for Best Actress for role
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linked to: Joan Fontaine
subject linked to:
de Havilland
subject linked to:
Alfred Wright, Jr.
subject linked to:
Alfred Wright, Jr.