Zelda Rubinstein
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Zelda Rubinstein was an American actress best known for her distinctive voice and memorable role as the psychic Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zelda Rubinstein canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342306 — 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: Zelda Rubinstein Context triple: [Poltergeist, starring, Zelda Rubinstein]
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A.
Dorothy Herzka
Dorothy Herzka is an American art professional best known as the wife and longtime partner of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, with whom she was deeply involved in the contemporary art world.
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B.
Elsa Löwenthal
Elsa Löwenthal, better known as Elsa Einstein, was the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein and often managed his personal and social affairs.
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C.
Hedwig Pinkus
Hedwig Pinkus was the wife of pioneering German physician and Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich, known primarily through her association with his life and work.
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D.
Aviva Kempner
Aviva Kempner is an American independent filmmaker and documentarian best known for her works exploring Jewish history, social justice, and overlooked cultural figures.
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E.
Gertrude Blugerman
Gertrude Blugerman was the first wife of renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, to whom he was married from 1942 until their divorce in 1973.
- 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: Zelda Rubinstein Target entity description: Zelda Rubinstein was an American actress best known for her distinctive voice and memorable role as the psychic Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series.
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A.
Dorothy Herzka
Dorothy Herzka is an American art professional best known as the wife and longtime partner of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, with whom she was deeply involved in the contemporary art world.
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B.
Elsa Löwenthal
Elsa Löwenthal, better known as Elsa Einstein, was the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein and often managed his personal and social affairs.
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C.
Hedwig Pinkus
Hedwig Pinkus was the wife of pioneering German physician and Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich, known primarily through her association with his life and work.
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D.
Aviva Kempner
Aviva Kempner is an American independent filmmaker and documentarian best known for her works exploring Jewish history, social justice, and overlooked cultural figures.
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E.
Gertrude Blugerman
Gertrude Blugerman was the first wife of renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, to whom he was married from 1942 until their divorce in 1973.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ voice actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| characterRole | Tangina Barrons ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Rubinstein ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | performing arts ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Zelda ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature | short stature ⓘ |
| knownFor | role as psychic Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| movement | AIDS activism ⓘ |
| name | Zelda Rubinstein ⓘ |
| notableFor | AIDS awareness campaigns ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Poltergeist
ⓘ
Poltergeist II: The Other Side ⓘ Poltergeist III ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
voice actress ⓘ |
| partOf |
Poltergeist film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Poltergeist III
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| portrayed | psychic ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| voiceType | distinctive voice ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Zelda Rubinstein Description of subject: Zelda Rubinstein was an American actress best known for her distinctive voice and memorable role as the psychic Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.