Edith Yorke
E404637
Edith Yorke was a British-born character actress of the silent film era, known for her maternal and supporting roles in early 20th-century American cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edith Yorke canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3664534 — 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: Edith Yorke Context triple: [The Red Lily (1924 film), starredActor, Edith Yorke]
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A.
Edith Villiers
Edith Villiers was a British aristocrat and courtier who became Lady Lytton, serving as Vicereine of India during her husband Lord Lytton’s tenure as Viceroy.
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B.
Edith Pope
Edith Pope was the mother of the English poet Alexander Pope, remembered mainly through her close relationship with and influence on her son’s life and work.
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C.
Maud Windsor
Maud Windsor is a young member of the British royal family, the daughter of Lord Frederick Windsor and granddaughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.
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D.
Caroline Ponsonby
Caroline Ponsonby, better known as Lady Caroline Lamb, was a British aristocrat and novelist famed for her scandalous affair with Lord Byron and her influential Gothic novel "Glenarvon."
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E.
Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby
Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby was a British aristocrat of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known as the wife of Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and the mother of his numerous children.
- 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: Edith Yorke Target entity description: Edith Yorke was a British-born character actress of the silent film era, known for her maternal and supporting roles in early 20th-century American cinema.
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A.
Edith Villiers
Edith Villiers was a British aristocrat and courtier who became Lady Lytton, serving as Vicereine of India during her husband Lord Lytton’s tenure as Viceroy.
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B.
Edith Pope
Edith Pope was the mother of the English poet Alexander Pope, remembered mainly through her close relationship with and influence on her son’s life and work.
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C.
Maud Windsor
Maud Windsor is a young member of the British royal family, the daughter of Lord Frederick Windsor and granddaughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.
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D.
Caroline Ponsonby
Caroline Ponsonby, better known as Lady Caroline Lamb, was a British aristocrat and novelist famed for her scandalous affair with Lord Byron and her influential Gothic novel "Glenarvon."
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E.
Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby
Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby was a British aristocrat of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known as the wife of Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and the mother of his numerous children.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British emigrant to the United States
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actor ⓘ character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ person ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
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cinema ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | silent film ⓘ |
| notableFor |
maternal roles in silent films
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supporting roles in early 20th-century American cinema ⓘ |
| notableRoleType | mother characters ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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United States of America ⓘ |
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: Edith Yorke Description of subject: Edith Yorke was a British-born character actress of the silent film era, known for her maternal and supporting roles in early 20th-century American cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.