Sally Ledger
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Sally Ledger is best known as the mother of the late Australian actor Heath Ledger.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sally Ledger canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3763913 — 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: Sally Ledger Context triple: [Heath Ledger, parent, Sally Ledger]
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A.
Thea Sharrock
Thea Sharrock is a British theatre and film director known for her acclaimed stage productions and for directing the feature film "Me Before You."
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B.
Annette Kirk
Annette Kirk is an American cultural advocate and widow of conservative thinker Russell Kirk, known for promoting his intellectual legacy and traditionalist ideas through institutions such as the Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.
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C.
Lisa Harrow
Lisa Harrow is a New Zealand-born actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in Australian and British productions.
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D.
Greer Shephard
Greer Shephard is an American television producer and director best known for co-creating and producing acclaimed drama series such as Nip/Tuck and The Closer.
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E.
Bridget Dryden
Bridget Dryden was the mother of the notable Puritan spiritual leader and religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson.
- 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: Sally Ledger Target entity description: Sally Ledger is best known as the mother of the late Australian actor Heath Ledger.
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A.
Thea Sharrock
Thea Sharrock is a British theatre and film director known for her acclaimed stage productions and for directing the feature film "Me Before You."
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B.
Annette Kirk
Annette Kirk is an American cultural advocate and widow of conservative thinker Russell Kirk, known for promoting his intellectual legacy and traditionalist ideas through institutions such as the Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.
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C.
Lisa Harrow
Lisa Harrow is a New Zealand-born actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in Australian and British productions.
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D.
Greer Shephard
Greer Shephard is an American television producer and director best known for co-creating and producing acclaimed drama series such as Nip/Tuck and The Closer.
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E.
Bridget Dryden
Bridget Dryden was the mother of the notable Puritan spiritual leader and religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian person
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture ⓘ |
| child | Heath Ledger ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-04-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2008-01-22 ⓘ |
| mother | Sally Ledger ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Heath Ledger ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brokeback Mountain
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The Dark Knight ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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linked to:
Perth
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| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York, United States
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linked to:
New York City
|
| sexOrGender |
female
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male ⓘ |
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: Sally Ledger Description of subject: Sally Ledger is best known as the mother of the late Australian actor Heath Ledger.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.