Sophie Steur
E293239
Sophie Steur was the wife of Ukrainian-born French-American film director Anatole Litvak, known for his work in Hollywood and European cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sophie Steur canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2729556 — 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: Sophie Steur Context triple: [Anatole Litvak, spouse, Sophie Steur]
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A.
Maayke Velders
Maayke Velders is known primarily as the spouse of Dutch naval hero Michiel de Ruyter.
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B.
Simone Buitendijk
Simone Buitendijk is a Dutch academic leader and scholar in higher education policy who has served as vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds.
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C.
Iris Steensma
Iris Steensma is the troubled teenage prostitute character from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film "Taxi Driver," whose role became iconic through Jodie Foster’s acclaimed performance.
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D.
Bianca Hoogendijk
Bianca Hoogendijk is a Dutch woman best known as the wife of former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Jan Peter Balkenende.
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E.
Annik Penders
Annik Penders is a Belgian communications professional best known as the wife of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
- 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: Sophie Steur Target entity description: Sophie Steur was the wife of Ukrainian-born French-American film director Anatole Litvak, known for his work in Hollywood and European cinema.
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A.
Maayke Velders
Maayke Velders is known primarily as the spouse of Dutch naval hero Michiel de Ruyter.
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B.
Simone Buitendijk
Simone Buitendijk is a Dutch academic leader and scholar in higher education policy who has served as vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds.
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C.
Iris Steensma
Iris Steensma is the troubled teenage prostitute character from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film "Taxi Driver," whose role became iconic through Jodie Foster’s acclaimed performance.
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D.
Bianca Hoogendijk
Bianca Hoogendijk is a Dutch woman best known as the wife of former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Jan Peter Balkenende.
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E.
Annik Penders
Annik Penders is a Belgian communications professional best known as the wife of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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Ukraine ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of film director Anatole Litvak ⓘ |
| notableWork |
European cinema films
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Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation | film director ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anatole Litvak
ⓘ
Sophie Steur ⓘ |
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: Sophie Steur Description of subject: Sophie Steur was the wife of Ukrainian-born French-American film director Anatole Litvak, known for his work in Hollywood and European cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sophie Steur