Dodie Smith
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Dodie Smith was an English novelist and playwright best known for writing the children's classic "The Hundred and One Dalmatians."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dodie Smith canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3313525 — 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: Dodie Smith Context triple: [One Hundred and One Dalmatians, basedOnAuthor, Dodie Smith]
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a British author famed for his darkly imaginative children's books such as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Matilda," as well as his work in adult fiction and screenwriting.
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B.
P. L. Travers
P. L. Travers was an Australian-British author best known for creating the beloved "Mary Poppins" children's book series.
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C.
Barbara McLean
Barbara McLean was a highly influential American film editor of Hollywood’s studio era, renowned for her work on numerous classic films and for helping shape the art of cinematic editing.
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D.
Googie Withers
Googie Withers was a British-Australian actress renowned for her work in mid-20th-century film, theatre, and television, particularly in British cinema and later Australian productions.
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E.
Blyton
Blyton is the surname of Enid Mary Blyton, the prolific British children's author known for series such as "The Famous Five" and "The Secret Seven."
- 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: Dodie Smith Target entity description: Dodie Smith was an English novelist and playwright best known for writing the children's classic "The Hundred and One Dalmatians."
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A.
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a British author famed for his darkly imaginative children's books such as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Matilda," as well as his work in adult fiction and screenwriting.
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B.
P. L. Travers
P. L. Travers was an Australian-British author best known for creating the beloved "Mary Poppins" children's book series.
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C.
Barbara McLean
Barbara McLean was a highly influential American film editor of Hollywood’s studio era, renowned for her work on numerous classic films and for helping shape the art of cinematic editing.
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D.
Googie Withers
Googie Withers was a British-Australian actress renowned for her work in mid-20th-century film, theatre, and television, particularly in British cinema and later Australian productions.
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E.
Blyton
Blyton is the surname of Enid Mary Blyton, the prolific British children's author known for series such as "The Famous Five" and "The Secret Seven."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Dodie Smith Description of subject: Dodie Smith was an English novelist and playwright best known for writing the children's classic "The Hundred and One Dalmatians."
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.