Margaret Sullavan
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Margaret Sullavan was an acclaimed American stage and film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known for her sensitive, naturalistic performances in films such as "The Shop Around the Corner."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margaret Sullavan canonical | 28 |
| Margaret Brooke Sullavan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2566559 — 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: Margaret Sullavan Context triple: [William Wyler, spouse, Margaret Sullavan]
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A.
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy was a popular American film actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, best known for her sophisticated, witty roles in classics such as The Thin Man series.
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B.
Virginia Mayo
Virginia Mayo was a popular American film actress and dancer of the 1940s and 1950s, best known for her roles in movies such as "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "White Heat."
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C.
Joan Blondell
Joan Blondell was a popular American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her wisecracking, warm-hearted characters in numerous Warner Bros. productions.
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D.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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E.
Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard was a celebrated American film actress of the 1930s, best known for her sharp wit and leading roles in classic screwball comedies.
- 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: Margaret Sullavan Target entity description: Margaret Sullavan was an acclaimed American stage and film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known for her sensitive, naturalistic performances in films such as "The Shop Around the Corner."
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A.
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy was a popular American film actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, best known for her sophisticated, witty roles in classics such as The Thin Man series.
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B.
Virginia Mayo
Virginia Mayo was a popular American film actress and dancer of the 1940s and 1950s, best known for her roles in movies such as "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "White Heat."
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C.
Joan Blondell
Joan Blondell was a popular American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her wisecracking, warm-hearted characters in numerous Warner Bros. productions.
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D.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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E.
Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard was a celebrated American film actress of the 1930s, best known for her sharp wit and leading roles in classic screwball comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Margaret Sullavan Description of subject: Margaret Sullavan was an acclaimed American stage and film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known for her sensitive, naturalistic performances in films such as "The Shop Around the Corner."
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Mortal Storm (1940 film)
linked to: Margaret Sullavan
subject linked to:
Fonda family