Edith Atwater
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Edith Atwater was an American character actress known for her work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edith Atwater canonical | 6 |
| Velma Cruther | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1005616 — 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: Edith Atwater Context triple: [Hugh Marlowe, spouse, Edith Atwater]
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A.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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B.
Phyllis Ames
Phyllis Ames was the wife of Archibald Cox, the prominent American lawyer and Watergate special prosecutor.
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C.
Evelyn Wade
Evelyn Wade was the wife of British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, known primarily in relation to his personal and intellectual life.
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D.
Maud Humphrey
Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
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E.
Edith Cushing
Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
- 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: Edith Atwater Target entity description: Edith Atwater was an American character actress known for her work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
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A.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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B.
Phyllis Ames
Phyllis Ames was the wife of Archibald Cox, the prominent American lawyer and Watergate special prosecutor.
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C.
Evelyn Wade
Evelyn Wade was the wife of British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, known primarily in relation to his personal and intellectual life.
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D.
Maud Humphrey
Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
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E.
Edith Cushing
Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1911-04-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-03-14 ⓘ |
| familyName | Atwater ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Edith ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | character actress ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Knots Landing
ⓘ
Peyton Place (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Peyton Place
Strait-Jacket ⓘ Sweet Smell of Success ⓘ The Body Snatcher ⓘ The Love Boat ⓘ The Nun's Story ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Hugh Marlowe
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Kent Smith ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Edith Atwater Description of subject: Edith Atwater was an American character actress known for her work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.