Dorothy Malone
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Dorothy Malone was an American film and television actress best known for her Oscar-winning role in "Written on the Wind" and her later work on the TV series "Peyton Place."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy Malone canonical | 33 |
| Dorothy Malone as Diana Barrymore | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T986021 — 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: Dorothy Malone Context triple: [Too Much, Too Soon, starring, Dorothy Malone]
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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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B.
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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C.
Verna Felton
Verna Felton was an American character actress and voice performer best known for her memorable roles in classic Disney animated films.
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D.
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.
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E.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
- 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: Dorothy Malone Target entity description: Dorothy Malone was an American film and television actress best known for her Oscar-winning role in "Written on the Wind" and her later work on the TV series "Peyton Place."
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Verna Felton
Verna Felton was an American character actress and voice performer best known for her memorable roles in classic Disney animated films.
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D.
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.
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E.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
- 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: Dorothy Malone Description of subject: Dorothy Malone was an American film and television actress best known for her Oscar-winning role in "Written on the Wind" and her later work on the TV series "Peyton Place."
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Big Sleep
subject linked to:
Oscars 1957
subject linked to:
Too Much, Too Soon (1958 film)
subject linked to:
Too Much, Too Soon (1958 film)
linked to: Dorothy Malone