Lois Maxwell
E384637
Lois Maxwell was a Canadian actress best known for originating the role of Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond film series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lois Maxwell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3456652 — 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: Lois Maxwell Context triple: [The Haunting (1963 film), castMember, Lois Maxwell]
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A.
Elspeth Thomson
Elspeth Thomson was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
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B.
Jean Grahame
Jean Grahame is the mother of American actress Gloria Grahame, known for her work in classic Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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D.
Carobeth Laird
Carobeth Laird was an American ethnographer and linguist best known for her influential documentation of Chemehuevi language and culture.
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E.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
- 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: Lois Maxwell Target entity description: Lois Maxwell was a Canadian actress best known for originating the role of Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond film series.
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A.
Elspeth Thomson
Elspeth Thomson was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
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B.
Jean Grahame
Jean Grahame is the mother of American actress Gloria Grahame, known for her work in classic Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Ellin Mackay
Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
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D.
Carobeth Laird
Carobeth Laird was an American ethnographer and linguist best known for her influential documentation of Chemehuevi language and culture.
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E.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
- 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: Lois Maxwell Description of subject: Lois Maxwell was a Canadian actress best known for originating the role of Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond film series.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.