Virginia Weidler
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Virginia Weidler was an American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best remembered for her witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Philadelphia Story."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virginia Weidler canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1070433 — 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: Virginia Weidler Context triple: [Babes on Broadway, castMember, Virginia Weidler]
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A.
Nancy Wheeler
Nancy Wheeler is a determined and resourceful teenager in the series "Stranger Things," known for her investigative instincts and courage in confronting supernatural threats.
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B.
Nancy Shevell
Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman and heiress best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to musician Paul McCartney.
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C.
Nancy Gross
Nancy Gross was the wife of renowned American film director Howard Hawks.
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D.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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E.
Dolores Erickson
Dolores Erickson is an American model and actress best known as the cover girl on Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’s iconic 1965 album "Whipped Cream & Other Delights."
- 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: Virginia Weidler Target entity description: Virginia Weidler was an American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best remembered for her witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Philadelphia Story."
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A.
Nancy Wheeler
Nancy Wheeler is a determined and resourceful teenager in the series "Stranger Things," known for her investigative instincts and courage in confronting supernatural threats.
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B.
Nancy Shevell
Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman and heiress best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to musician Paul McCartney.
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C.
Nancy Gross
Nancy Gross was the wife of renowned American film director Howard Hawks.
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D.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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E.
Dolores Erickson
Dolores Erickson is an American model and actress best known as the cover girl on Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’s iconic 1965 album "Whipped Cream & Other Delights."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
child actor ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1940s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
ⓘ
RKO Pictures ⓘ
linked to:
RKO Radio Pictures
|
| familyName | Weidler ⓘ |
| genre | classic Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| givenName | Virginia ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
precocious child roles
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witty screen presence ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | German American (family background) ⓘ |
| hasRelative | child actor sibling (Weidler family) ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Dinah Lord in The Philadelphia Story
ⓘ
supporting roles in comedy films ⓘ supporting roles in drama films ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| isPartOf | American cinema history ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | film ⓘ |
| name | Virginia Weidler ⓘ |
| notableFor | witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All This, and Heaven Too
ⓘ
Bad Little Angel ⓘ Born to Sing ⓘ Laddie ⓘ The Great Waltz ⓘ The Philadelphia Story ⓘ The Women ⓘ Young Tom Edison ⓘ |
| notedIn | histories of child actors in Hollywood ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
child actress ⓘ |
| partOf |
Golden Age of Hollywood
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| typeOfArtist | screen actor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1930s
ⓘ
1940s ⓘ |
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: Virginia Weidler Description of subject: Virginia Weidler was an American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best remembered for her witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Philadelphia Story."
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bad Little Angel (1939 film)
subject linked to:
The Women
subject linked to:
film "Best Foot Forward" (1943)