Gloria Swanson
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Gloria Swanson was a prominent American actress and producer best known as a glamorous silent film star and for her iconic role in the classic film "Sunset Boulevard."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gloria Swanson canonical | 40 |
| Gloria May Josephine Swanson | 1 |
| Gloria Swanson Somborn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2759210 — 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: Gloria Swanson Context triple: [Essanay Studios, employed, Gloria Swanson]
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A.
Dorothy Gish
Dorothy Gish was a prominent American silent film actress, known for her expressive comedic and dramatic performances and as the younger sister of fellow star Lillian Gish.
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B.
Miriam Hopkins
Miriam Hopkins was an American film and stage actress best known for her work in 1930s Hollywood, including roles in pre-Code dramas and comedies such as "Trouble in Paradise" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
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C.
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo was a legendary Swedish-American film actress of the silent and early sound eras, renowned for her enigmatic screen presence and roles in classics such as "Anna Karenina" and "Camille."
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D.
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford was a legendary American film actress and Hollywood star whose career spanned from the silent era to the 1970s, earning her an Academy Award and enduring icon status.
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E.
Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon was a British-Indian actress best known for her glamorous Hollywood career in the 1930s and 1940s, including acclaimed performances in classic romantic dramas.
- 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: Gloria Swanson Target entity description: Gloria Swanson was a prominent American actress and producer best known as a glamorous silent film star and for her iconic role in the classic film "Sunset Boulevard."
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A.
Dorothy Gish
Dorothy Gish was a prominent American silent film actress, known for her expressive comedic and dramatic performances and as the younger sister of fellow star Lillian Gish.
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B.
Miriam Hopkins
Miriam Hopkins was an American film and stage actress best known for her work in 1930s Hollywood, including roles in pre-Code dramas and comedies such as "Trouble in Paradise" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
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C.
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo was a legendary Swedish-American film actress of the silent and early sound eras, renowned for her enigmatic screen presence and roles in classics such as "Anna Karenina" and "Camille."
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D.
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford was a legendary American film actress and Hollywood star whose career spanned from the silent era to the 1970s, earning her an Academy Award and enduring icon status.
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E.
Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon was a British-Indian actress best known for her glamorous Hollywood career in the 1930s and 1940s, including acclaimed performances in classic romantic dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Gloria Swanson Description of subject: Gloria Swanson was a prominent American actress and producer best known as a glamorous silent film star and for her iconic role in the classic film "Sunset Boulevard."
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States
linked to: Gloria Swanson
linked to: Gloria Swanson
subject linked to:
fictional character Sadie Thompson