May Robson
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May Robson was an Australian-born American stage and film actress known for her character roles in early Hollywood cinema, including appearances in major silent and sound-era productions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| May Robson canonical | 29 |
| featuring May Robson in a prominent role | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1017403 — 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: May Robson Context triple: [The King of Kings (1927 film), starring, May Robson]
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A.
Yvonne Roberts
Yvonne Roberts is a British journalist and writer known for her work on social issues, politics, and feminism.
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Karen Richards
Karen Richards is a key character in the classic film "All About Eve," a theater insider whose friendship and decisions help drive the story’s backstage drama and betrayal.
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C.
Karen O’Brien
Karen O’Brien is a British academic and university leader who serves as Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, overseeing its strategic direction and academic mission.
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D.
Joy Morton
Joy Morton was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder of the Morton Salt Company and a major advocate for tree conservation and public arboreta.
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E.
Glynis Johns
Glynis Johns was a British actress and singer known for her distinctive husky voice and roles in films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Court Jester," as well as her work on stage and television.
- 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: May Robson Target entity description: May Robson was an Australian-born American stage and film actress known for her character roles in early Hollywood cinema, including appearances in major silent and sound-era productions.
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A.
Yvonne Roberts
Yvonne Roberts is a British journalist and writer known for her work on social issues, politics, and feminism.
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B.
Karen Richards
Karen Richards is a key character in the classic film "All About Eve," a theater insider whose friendship and decisions help drive the story’s backstage drama and betrayal.
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C.
Karen O’Brien
Karen O’Brien is a British academic and university leader who serves as Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, overseeing its strategic direction and academic mission.
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D.
Joy Morton
Joy Morton was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder of the Morton Salt Company and a major advocate for tree conservation and public arboreta.
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E.
Glynis Johns
Glynis Johns was a British actress and singer known for her distinctive husky voice and roles in films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Court Jester," as well as her work on stage and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: May Robson Description of subject: May Robson was an Australian-born American stage and film actress known for her character roles in early Hollywood cinema, including appearances in major silent and sound-era productions.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Perfect Specimen (1937 film)
linked to: May Robson
subject linked to:
Mary
subject linked to:
Four Daughters (1938 film)