Doris Sydnor
E174672
Doris Sydnor was the fourth wife of legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, with whom she was married during the final years of his life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Doris Sydnor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1062525 — 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: Doris Sydnor Context triple: [Charlie Parker, spouse, Doris Sydnor]
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A.
Verna Fields
Verna Fields was an American film editor best known for her Oscar-winning work on the blockbuster thriller "Jaws" and her influential role in New Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Oda Mae Brown
Oda Mae Brown is a comedic, reluctant psychic medium who becomes the key ally in helping a murdered man communicate with his grieving girlfriend in the film "Ghost."
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C.
Betty Irene Whitaker
Betty Irene Whitaker is the wife of Intel co-founder and philanthropist Gordon E. Moore and a partner in his philanthropic endeavors.
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D.
Lela Rogers
Lela Rogers was an American journalist, screenwriter, and acting coach best known as the mother and early career mentor of Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
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E.
Audrey Young
Audrey Young was an American actress and singer best known for her work in 1940s Hollywood films and her later marriage to acclaimed director Billy Wilder.
- 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: Doris Sydnor Target entity description: Doris Sydnor was the fourth wife of legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, with whom she was married during the final years of his life.
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A.
Verna Fields
Verna Fields was an American film editor best known for her Oscar-winning work on the blockbuster thriller "Jaws" and her influential role in New Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Oda Mae Brown
Oda Mae Brown is a comedic, reluctant psychic medium who becomes the key ally in helping a murdered man communicate with his grieving girlfriend in the film "Ghost."
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C.
Betty Irene Whitaker
Betty Irene Whitaker is the wife of Intel co-founder and philanthropist Gordon E. Moore and a partner in his philanthropic endeavors.
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D.
Lela Rogers
Lela Rogers was an American journalist, screenwriter, and acting coach best known as the mother and early career mentor of Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
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E.
Audrey Young
Audrey Young was an American actress and singer best known for her work in 1940s Hollywood films and her later marriage to acclaimed director Billy Wilder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | jazz community through marriage to Charlie Parker ⓘ |
| maritalPeriodWith | final years of Charlie Parker's life ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the fourth wife of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker ⓘ |
| notableWork | bebop jazz innovations ⓘ |
| occupation | jazz saxophonist ⓘ |
| positionInSpouseOrder | fourth wife of Charlie Parker ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charlie Parker
ⓘ
Doris Sydnor ⓘ |
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: Doris Sydnor Description of subject: Doris Sydnor was the fourth wife of legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, with whom she was married during the final years of his life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doris Sydnor