Dame May Whitty
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Dame May Whitty was a distinguished English stage and film actress, renowned for her character roles in British and Hollywood cinema during the early 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dame May Whitty canonical | 16 |
| May Whitty received an Academy Award nomination for playing Lady Beldon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3926341 — 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: Dame May Whitty Context triple: [Gaslight (1944 film), starring, Dame May Whitty]
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A.
Peggy Ashcroft
Peggy Ashcroft was a distinguished English stage and film actress renowned for her Shakespearean performances and her long, influential career in British theatre.
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B.
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw was an acclaimed English actress renowned for her intense stage and screen performances, particularly in the plays of Samuel Beckett.
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C.
Edith Lesley
Edith Lesley was an American educator and founder of the teacher-training institution that evolved into Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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D.
Flora Robson
Flora Robson was a distinguished British actress known for her powerful character roles in both stage and film, often portraying strong, authoritative women.
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E.
Dame Ann Dowling
Dame Ann Dowling is a prominent British mechanical engineer and academic leader known for her pioneering research in acoustics and aeronautics and for serving as President of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
- 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: Dame May Whitty Target entity description: Dame May Whitty was a distinguished English stage and film actress, renowned for her character roles in British and Hollywood cinema during the early 20th century.
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A.
Peggy Ashcroft
Peggy Ashcroft was a distinguished English stage and film actress renowned for her Shakespearean performances and her long, influential career in British theatre.
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B.
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw was an acclaimed English actress renowned for her intense stage and screen performances, particularly in the plays of Samuel Beckett.
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C.
Edith Lesley
Edith Lesley was an American educator and founder of the teacher-training institution that evolved into Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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D.
Flora Robson
Flora Robson was a distinguished British actress known for her powerful character roles in both stage and film, often portraying strong, authoritative women.
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E.
Dame Ann Dowling
Dame Ann Dowling is a prominent British mechanical engineer and academic leader known for her pioneering research in acoustics and aeronautics and for serving as President of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Dame May Whitty Description of subject: Dame May Whitty was a distinguished English stage and film actress, renowned for her character roles in British and Hollywood cinema during the early 20th century.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Thirteenth Chair
Lady Beldon
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awardConnection
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May Whitty received an Academy Award nomination for playing Lady Beldon
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linked to: Dame May Whitty