Heather O’Rourke
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Heather O’Rourke was an American child actress best known for her role as Carol Anne Freeling in the "Poltergeist" film series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heather O’Rourke canonical | 12 |
| Heather O'Rourke | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1794988 — 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: Heather O’Rourke Context triple: [Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Heather O’Rourke]
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A.
Bridget O’Connor
Bridget O’Connor was a British screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the acclaimed adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).
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B.
Erin McDermott
Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
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C.
Nicole Shanahan
Nicole Shanahan is an American attorney, legal tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist known for founding the patent management company ClearAccessIP and for her high-profile marriage to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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D.
Heather Gibson
Heather Gibson is known as the wife of the late British actor Richard Griffiths, acclaimed for his roles in film, television, and theatre.
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E.
Deanne Fitzmaurice
Deanne Fitzmaurice is an American photojournalist renowned for her intimate, long-term documentary projects and award-winning storytelling imagery.
- 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: Heather O’Rourke Target entity description: Heather O’Rourke was an American child actress best known for her role as Carol Anne Freeling in the "Poltergeist" film series.
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A.
Bridget O’Connor
Bridget O’Connor was a British screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the acclaimed adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).
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B.
Erin McDermott
Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
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C.
Nicole Shanahan
Nicole Shanahan is an American attorney, legal tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist known for founding the patent management company ClearAccessIP and for her high-profile marriage to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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D.
Heather Gibson
Heather Gibson is known as the wife of the late British actor Richard Griffiths, acclaimed for his roles in film, television, and theatre.
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E.
Deanne Fitzmaurice
Deanne Fitzmaurice is an American photojournalist renowned for her intimate, long-term documentary projects and award-winning storytelling imagery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Heather O’Rourke Description of subject: Heather O’Rourke was an American child actress best known for her role as Carol Anne Freeling in the "Poltergeist" film series.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Heather O’Rourke
linked to: Heather O’Rourke
subject linked to:
Valley Oaks Memorial Park, Westlake Village, California, United States