Miriam Cooper
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Miriam Cooper was an American silent film actress best known for her roles in D.W. Griffith’s landmark films "The Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Miriam Cooper canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T890815 — 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: Miriam Cooper Context triple: [Raoul Walsh, spouse, Miriam Cooper]
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A.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
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B.
Myrtle Logue
Myrtle Logue was the wife of Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue, known for supporting him during his work with King George VI.
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C.
Margaret Bremond Rice
Margaret Bremond Rice was the wife of American businessman and philanthropist William Marsh Rice, founder of Rice University.
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D.
Vera Florence Cooper
Vera Florence Cooper, better known as Vera Rubin, was an American astronomer whose pioneering work on galaxy rotation curves provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter.
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E.
Ethel Wayman
Ethel Wayman was the wife of British humorist and novelist P. G. Wodehouse.
- 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: Miriam Cooper Target entity description: Miriam Cooper was an American silent film actress best known for her roles in D.W. Griffith’s landmark films "The Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance."
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A.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
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B.
Myrtle Logue
Myrtle Logue was the wife of Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue, known for supporting him during his work with King George VI.
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C.
Margaret Bremond Rice
Margaret Bremond Rice was the wife of American businessman and philanthropist William Marsh Rice, founder of Rice University.
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D.
Vera Florence Cooper
Vera Florence Cooper, better known as Vera Rubin, was an American astronomer whose pioneering work on galaxy rotation curves provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter.
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E.
Ethel Wayman
Ethel Wayman was the wife of British humorist and novelist P. G. Wodehouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actress ⓘ |
| activeIn | silent film era ⓘ |
| associatedWith | D. W. Griffith ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | D. W. Griffith ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Cooper ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
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cinema ⓘ |
| genre | silent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Miriam ⓘ |
| hasNotableRoleIn |
Intolerance
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The Birth of a Nation ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | feature film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance |
film
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silent cinema ⓘ |
| name | Miriam Cooper ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in Intolerance
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role in The Birth of a Nation ⓘ roles in D. W. Griffith’s films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Intolerance
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The Birth of a Nation ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actress ⓘ silent film actress ⓘ |
| partOf | American silent cinema ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Intolerance
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The Birth of a Nation ⓘ |
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: Miriam Cooper Description of subject: Miriam Cooper was an American silent film actress best known for her roles in D.W. Griffith’s landmark films "The Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.