Susan Applegate
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Susan Applegate is the adult woman who disguises herself as a twelve-year-old girl to obtain a cheaper train fare in the classic 1942 Billy Wilder comedy film "The Major and the Minor."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Susan Applegate canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2882458 — 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: Susan Applegate Context triple: [The Major and the Minor, mainCharacter, Susan Applegate]
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A.
Melissa Mathison
Melissa Mathison was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
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B.
Shiri Appleby
Shiri Appleby is an American actress best known for her lead role in the TV series "Roswell" and her later work on shows like "UnREAL."
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C.
Susan Garrett
Susan Garrett is known primarily as the wife of former U.S. Secretary of State and Treasury James A. Baker III.
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D.
Ann Donahue
Ann Donahue is an American television writer and producer best known as a co-creator and longtime showrunner of the CSI franchise.
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E.
Lori McCreary
Lori McCreary is an American film and television producer, co-founder of Revelations Entertainment, and longtime producing partner of actor Morgan Freeman.
- 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: Susan Applegate Target entity description: Susan Applegate is the adult woman who disguises herself as a twelve-year-old girl to obtain a cheaper train fare in the classic 1942 Billy Wilder comedy film "The Major and the Minor."
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A.
Melissa Mathison
Melissa Mathison was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
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B.
Shiri Appleby
Shiri Appleby is an American actress best known for her lead role in the TV series "Roswell" and her later work on shows like "UnREAL."
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C.
Susan Garrett
Susan Garrett is known primarily as the wife of former U.S. Secretary of State and Treasury James A. Baker III.
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D.
Ann Donahue
Ann Donahue is an American television writer and producer best known as a co-creator and longtime showrunner of the CSI franchise.
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E.
Lori McCreary
Lori McCreary is an American film and television producer, co-founder of Revelations Entertainment, and longtime producing partner of actor Morgan Freeman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Major and the Minor ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
mistaken identity
ⓘ
romantic comedy elements ⓘ train travel ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
Billy Wilder
ⓘ
Charles Brackett ⓘ |
| disguisesAs | twelve-year-old girl ⓘ |
| fictionalAge | adult ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | comedy film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| motivation | to obtain a cheaper train fare ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor | comic age-disguise plot device ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ginger Rogers ⓘ |
| workDirector | Billy Wilder ⓘ |
| workProductionCompany | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| workReleaseDate | 1942-09-16 ⓘ |
| workScreenwriter |
Billy Wilder
ⓘ
Charles Brackett ⓘ |
| workTitle | The Major and the Minor ⓘ |
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: Susan Applegate Description of subject: Susan Applegate is the adult woman who disguises herself as a twelve-year-old girl to obtain a cheaper train fare in the classic 1942 Billy Wilder comedy film "The Major and the Minor."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.