Lynn Fontanne
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Lynn Fontanne was a renowned British-born American stage actress, celebrated for her long and acclaimed theatrical partnership with her husband Alfred Lunt.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lynn Fontanne canonical | 8 |
| Lillie Louise Fontanne | 2 |
| Lynn Fontanne (original Broadway production) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2678575 — 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: Lynn Fontanne Context triple: [Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, namedAfter, Lynn Fontanne]
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A.
Frances Bavier
Frances Bavier was an American actress best known for her portrayal of the warm but no-nonsense Aunt Bee on the classic television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show."
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B.
Florence Dempsey
Florence Dempsey is a spirited young reporter character in the 1933 horror film "Mystery of the Wax Museum," known for her sharp wit and investigative tenacity.
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C.
Marguerite Roberts
Marguerite Roberts was a prominent American screenwriter known for her sharp dialogue and work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s, including the classic Western "True Grit."
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D.
Lucille Bliss
Lucille Bliss was an American voice actress best known for her work in classic animated films and television, including early Disney productions and the original Smurfs series.
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E.
Ellery Channing
Ellery Channing was a 19th-century American Transcendentalist poet and writer closely associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Concord literary circle.
- 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: Lynn Fontanne Target entity description: Lynn Fontanne was a renowned British-born American stage actress, celebrated for her long and acclaimed theatrical partnership with her husband Alfred Lunt.
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A.
Frances Bavier
Frances Bavier was an American actress best known for her portrayal of the warm but no-nonsense Aunt Bee on the classic television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show."
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B.
Florence Dempsey
Florence Dempsey is a spirited young reporter character in the 1933 horror film "Mystery of the Wax Museum," known for her sharp wit and investigative tenacity.
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C.
Marguerite Roberts
Marguerite Roberts was a prominent American screenwriter known for her sharp dialogue and work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s, including the classic Western "True Grit."
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D.
Lucille Bliss
Lucille Bliss was an American voice actress best known for her work in classic animated films and television, including early Disney productions and the original Smurfs series.
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E.
Ellery Channing
Ellery Channing was a 19th-century American Transcendentalist poet and writer closely associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Concord literary circle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Lynn Fontanne Description of subject: Lynn Fontanne was a renowned British-born American stage actress, celebrated for her long and acclaimed theatrical partnership with her husband Alfred Lunt.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lynn Fontanne
linked to: Lynn Fontanne
subject linked to:
The Great Sebastians (play)
linked to: Lynn Fontanne
subject linked to:
The Guardsman