Valerie Hobson
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Valerie Hobson was a British film and stage actress best known for roles in classics like "Great Expectations" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets," and later for her involvement in the Profumo affair through her marriage to politician John Profumo.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Valerie Hobson canonical | 19 |
| Joanna Riding as Valerie Hobson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1110579 — 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: Valerie Hobson Context triple: [John Profumo, spouse, Valerie Hobson]
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A.
Renée Lees
Renée Lees was the wife of prominent British philosopher A. J. Ayer.
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B.
June Rowlands
June Rowlands was a Canadian politician who became the first woman to serve as mayor of Toronto, leading the city in the early 1990s.
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C.
Yvonne Roberts
Yvonne Roberts is a British journalist and writer known for her work on social issues, politics, and feminism.
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D.
Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine is an American actress known for her warm, soulful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "Waiting to Exhale" and the TV series "Grey's Anatomy."
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E.
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.
- 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: Valerie Hobson Target entity description: Valerie Hobson was a British film and stage actress best known for roles in classics like "Great Expectations" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets," and later for her involvement in the Profumo affair through her marriage to politician John Profumo.
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A.
Renée Lees
Renée Lees was the wife of prominent British philosopher A. J. Ayer.
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B.
June Rowlands
June Rowlands was a Canadian politician who became the first woman to serve as mayor of Toronto, leading the city in the early 1990s.
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C.
Yvonne Roberts
Yvonne Roberts is a British journalist and writer known for her work on social issues, politics, and feminism.
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D.
Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine is an American actress known for her warm, soulful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "Waiting to Exhale" and the TV series "Grey's Anatomy."
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Valerie Hobson Description of subject: Valerie Hobson was a British film and stage actress best known for roles in classics like "Great Expectations" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets," and later for her involvement in the Profumo affair through her marriage to politician John Profumo.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
the musical "Stephen Ward"
linked to: Valerie Hobson
subject linked to:
Elizabeth in The Bride of Frankenstein