Phyllis Thaxter
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Phyllis Thaxter was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas and for playing Martha Kent in the 1978 film "Superman."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phyllis Thaxter canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2855864 — 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: Phyllis Thaxter Context triple: [Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, stars, Phyllis Thaxter]
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A.
Estelle Parsons
Estelle Parsons is an American actress and director best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde" and her extensive work on stage and television.
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B.
Anne Francis
Anne Francis was an American actress best known for her roles in films like "Forbidden Planet" and the TV series "Honey West," for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
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C.
Dina Merrill
Dina Merrill was an American actress, heiress, and philanthropist known for her elegant screen presence in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television.
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D.
Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie was an acclaimed American actress known for her intense performances in films like "Carrie" and "The Hustler" and the TV series "Twin Peaks."
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E.
Nancy Richardson
Nancy Richardson is a film editor best known for her work on movies such as the biographical sports comedy-drama "Fighting with My 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: Phyllis Thaxter Target entity description: Phyllis Thaxter was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas and for playing Martha Kent in the 1978 film "Superman."
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A.
Estelle Parsons
Estelle Parsons is an American actress and director best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde" and her extensive work on stage and television.
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B.
Anne Francis
Anne Francis was an American actress best known for her roles in films like "Forbidden Planet" and the TV series "Honey West," for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
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C.
Dina Merrill
Dina Merrill was an American actress, heiress, and philanthropist known for her elegant screen presence in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television.
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D.
Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie was an acclaimed American actress known for her intense performances in films like "Carrie" and "The Hustler" and the TV series "Twin Peaks."
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E.
Nancy Richardson
Nancy Richardson is a film editor best known for her work on movies such as the biographical sports comedy-drama "Fighting with My Family."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Phyllis Thaxter Description of subject: Phyllis Thaxter was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas and for playing Martha Kent in the 1978 film "Superman."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo"
subject linked to:
She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952 film)
subject linked to:
She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952 film)