Sonya Wilde
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Sonya Wilde is an American actress best known for her leading role in the 1960 film exploring racial identity and passing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sonya Wilde canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T986095 — 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: Sonya Wilde Context triple: [I Passed for White, starredActor, Sonya Wilde]
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A.
Sonya Levien
Sonya Levien was a prominent American screenwriter known for her work on numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s, often adapting literary and theatrical works for the screen.
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B.
Anna Beth Sully
Anna Beth Sully was the first wife of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, whom she married before his rise to Hollywood fame.
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C.
Jessica Szohr
Jessica Szohr is an American actress best known for her role as Vanessa Abrams on the television series "Gossip Girl" and later as a main cast member on the sci-fi comedy-drama "The Orville."
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D.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
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E.
Elizabeth Roboz
Elizabeth Roboz was a Hungarian-American neurobiologist and biochemist known for her research on brain chemistry and her marriage to Hans Albert Einstein, the son of Albert Einstein.
- 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: Sonya Wilde Target entity description: Sonya Wilde is an American actress best known for her leading role in the 1960 film exploring racial identity and passing.
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A.
Sonya Levien
Sonya Levien was a prominent American screenwriter known for her work on numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s, often adapting literary and theatrical works for the screen.
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B.
Anna Beth Sully
Anna Beth Sully was the first wife of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, whom she married before his rise to Hollywood fame.
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C.
Jessica Szohr
Jessica Szohr is an American actress best known for her role as Vanessa Abrams on the television series "Gossip Girl" and later as a main cast member on the sci-fi comedy-drama "The Orville."
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D.
Anna Reinhart
Anna Reinhart was the wife of Swiss Reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli and is known primarily for her association with his life and work in early 16th-century Zurich.
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E.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century film ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | motion pictures ⓘ |
| genre | film acting ⓘ |
| hasEthnicTheme |
racial identity
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racial passing in the United States ⓘ |
| hasNotableCollaboration |
Columbia Pictures (distributor of I Passed for White)
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linked to:
Columbia Pictures
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| hasRole | film actress ⓘ |
| knownFor | leading role in the 1960 film I Passed for White ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of racial passing on screen ⓘ |
| notableWork | I Passed for White ⓘ |
| notableWorkReleaseYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| partOf | American cinema history ⓘ |
| portrayed | a light‑skinned Black woman passing as white in I Passed for White ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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: Sonya Wilde Description of subject: Sonya Wilde is an American actress best known for her leading role in the 1960 film exploring racial identity and passing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.