Polly Parrish
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Polly Parrish is the main character in the 1939 romantic comedy film "Bachelor Mother," portrayed as a salesgirl who becomes entangled in comedic misunderstandings after being mistaken for an abandoned baby's mother.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polly Parrish canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2546757 — 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: Polly Parrish Context triple: [Bachelor Mother, featuresCharacter, Polly Parrish]
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A.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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B.
Patsy Kelly
Patsy Kelly was an American actress and comedian known for her wisecracking roles in 1930s comedies and later character parts in film, television, and stage.
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C.
Ellen O'Hara
Ellen O'Hara is a devout, aristocratic Southern matriarch in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind," known for her calm strength and moral influence over her family and plantation.
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D.
Polly Adams
Polly Adams is the daughter of the late British author Douglas Adams, famed creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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E.
Maria Andrews
Maria Andrews is an American woman known primarily as the wife of businessman Neil Bush, a member of the prominent Bush political family.
- 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: Polly Parrish Target entity description: Polly Parrish is the main character in the 1939 romantic comedy film "Bachelor Mother," portrayed as a salesgirl who becomes entangled in comedic misunderstandings after being mistaken for an abandoned baby's mother.
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A.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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B.
Patsy Kelly
Patsy Kelly was an American actress and comedian known for her wisecracking roles in 1930s comedies and later character parts in film, television, and stage.
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C.
Ellen O'Hara
Ellen O'Hara is a devout, aristocratic Southern matriarch in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind," known for her calm strength and moral influence over her family and plantation.
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D.
Polly Adams
Polly Adams is the daughter of the late British author Douglas Adams, famed creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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E.
Maria Andrews
Maria Andrews is an American woman known primarily as the wife of businessman Neil Bush, a member of the prominent Bush political family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Bachelor Mother ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | romantic comedy ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
mistaken identity
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romantic relationships ⓘ single motherhood ⓘ |
| centralPlotDevice | abandoned baby ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor | Bachelor Mother ⓘ |
| employerInStory | department store ⓘ |
| entangledIn | comedic misunderstandings ⓘ |
| featuredIn | American cinema of the 1930s ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasCharacterArc | from single salesgirl to perceived mother ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType | working-class woman ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse |
Bachelor Mother universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Bachelor Mother
|
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasSetting | department store ⓘ |
| hasTemporalSetting | 1930s ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | main character ⓘ |
| notableEvent | mistaken for an abandoned baby's mother ⓘ |
| occupation | salesgirl ⓘ |
| partOf | Bachelor Mother cast of characters ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ginger Rogers ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1939 ⓘ |
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: Polly Parrish Description of subject: Polly Parrish is the main character in the 1939 romantic comedy film "Bachelor Mother," portrayed as a salesgirl who becomes entangled in comedic misunderstandings after being mistaken for an abandoned baby's mother.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.