Jeff Donnell
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Jeff Donnell was an American film and television actress best known for her supporting roles in 1940s–1950s Hollywood movies and later TV series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeff Donnell canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3893339 — 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: Jeff Donnell Context triple: [In a Lonely Place, starring, Jeff Donnell]
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A.
Michael Culver
Michael Culver is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "A Passage to India" and "The Empire Strikes Back."
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B.
Bill Durnan
Bill Durnan was a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1940s, renowned for his ambidextrous catching ability and dominance in the early NHL.
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C.
Jeffrey Dean
Jeffrey Dean is a prominent American computer scientist and software engineer best known for his influential work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure at Google.
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D.
Eric Palicki
Eric Palicki is an American comic book writer known for creator-owned and independent titles, and as the brother of actress Adrianne Palicki.
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E.
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor best known for starring as Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice" and appearing in films such as "Sicario" and its sequel.
- 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: Jeff Donnell Target entity description: Jeff Donnell was an American film and television actress best known for her supporting roles in 1940s–1950s Hollywood movies and later TV series.
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A.
Michael Culver
Michael Culver is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "A Passage to India" and "The Empire Strikes Back."
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B.
Bill Durnan
Bill Durnan was a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1940s, renowned for his ambidextrous catching ability and dominance in the early NHL.
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C.
Jeffrey Dean
Jeffrey Dean is a prominent American computer scientist and software engineer best known for his influential work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure at Google.
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D.
Eric Palicki
Eric Palicki is an American comic book writer known for creator-owned and independent titles, and as the brother of actress Adrianne Palicki.
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E.
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor best known for starring as Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice" and appearing in films such as "Sicario" and its sequel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
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human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| birthName | Jean Marie Donnell ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-07-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1988-04-11 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Donnell ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean ⓘ |
| IMDbId | nm0232805 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
roles in American television series
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supporting roles in 1940s Hollywood films ⓘ supporting roles in 1950s Hollywood films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Jeff Donnell ⓘ |
| notableWork |
General Hospital
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Gidget ⓘ In a Lonely Place ⓘ My Sister Eileen ⓘ The Blue Gardenia ⓘ The George Gobel Show ⓘ The Iron Mistress ⓘ The Sweet Smell of Success ⓘ
linked to:
Sweet Smell of Success
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| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
South Windham, Maine, United States
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linked to:
Windham, Maine
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| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alden Brewster
ⓘ
Bill Anderson ⓘ John Bricker ⓘ
linked to:
John W. Bricker
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| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jeff Donnell Description of subject: Jeff Donnell was an American film and television actress best known for her supporting roles in 1940s–1950s Hollywood movies and later TV series.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.