Ruth Nelson
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Ruth Nelson was an American stage and film actress known for her work with the Group Theatre and roles in classic mid-20th-century films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ruth Nelson canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3621971 — 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: Ruth Nelson Context triple: [A Wedding, hasCastMember, Ruth Nelson]
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A.
Frances Nelson
Frances Nelson was the wife of British naval hero Admiral Horatio Nelson, known for their troubled marriage that ended amid his affair with Emma Hamilton.
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B.
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
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C.
Rose Mary Harbison
Rose Mary Harbison is an American violinist and educator known for her performances, teaching, and long association with composer John Harbison.
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D.
Marjorie Nelson
Marjorie Nelson was an American actress known for her work on stage and screen and for being married to fellow actor Howard Da Silva.
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E.
Ruth Wilcox
Ruth Wilcox is a central figure in E.M. Forster's novel "Howards End," an idealistic, gentle matriarch whose deep attachment to her country home symbolizes the novel’s themes of heritage, connection, and the passing of values between generations.
- 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: Ruth Nelson Target entity description: Ruth Nelson was an American stage and film actress known for her work with the Group Theatre and roles in classic mid-20th-century films.
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A.
Frances Nelson
Frances Nelson was the wife of British naval hero Admiral Horatio Nelson, known for their troubled marriage that ended amid his affair with Emma Hamilton.
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B.
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
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C.
Rose Mary Harbison
Rose Mary Harbison is an American violinist and educator known for her performances, teaching, and long association with composer John Harbison.
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D.
Marjorie Nelson
Marjorie Nelson was an American actress known for her work on stage and screen and for being married to fellow actor Howard Da Silva.
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E.
Ruth Wilcox
Ruth Wilcox is a central figure in E.M. Forster's novel "Howards End," an idealistic, gentle matriarch whose deep attachment to her country home symbolizes the novel’s themes of heritage, connection, and the passing of values between generations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
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human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century film
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20th-century theatre ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Nelson ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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stage drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Ruth ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Group Theatre
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linked to:
Group Theatre (New York)
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| name | Ruth Nelson ⓘ |
| notableFor |
roles in classic mid-20th-century American films
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work with the Group Theatre ⓘ |
| notableWork |
3 Women
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ⓘ Awakenings ⓘ The Bachelor Party ⓘ The Sea of Grass ⓘ The Snake Pit ⓘ Wilson ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actress ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
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: Ruth Nelson Description of subject: Ruth Nelson was an American stage and film actress known for her work with the Group Theatre and roles in classic mid-20th-century films.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.