Jane Darwell
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Jane Darwell was an American character actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance as Ma Joad in the film adaptation of "The Grapes of Wrath."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jane Darwell canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T455609 — 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: Jane Darwell Context triple: [The Grapes of Wrath, filmStar, Jane Darwell]
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A.
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead was an American actress renowned for her powerful character roles in film, radio, and television, notably in Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre and as Endora on the TV series "Bewitched."
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B.
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt was an American actress best known for her roles in the film "Gentleman's Agreement" and the television series "Father Knows Best."
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C.
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
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D.
Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter was an acclaimed American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, humorous supporting roles in classic mid-20th-century films and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
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E.
Maxine Albro
Maxine Albro was an American muralist and painter associated with the New Deal era, best known for her vibrant frescoes and contributions to public art in San Francisco.
- 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: Jane Darwell Target entity description: Jane Darwell was an American character actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance as Ma Joad in the film adaptation of "The Grapes of Wrath."
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A.
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead was an American actress renowned for her powerful character roles in film, radio, and television, notably in Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre and as Endora on the TV series "Bewitched."
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B.
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt was an American actress best known for her roles in the film "Gentleman's Agreement" and the television series "Father Knows Best."
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C.
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
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D.
Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter was an acclaimed American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, humorous supporting roles in classic mid-20th-century films and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
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E.
Maxine Albro
Maxine Albro was an American muralist and painter associated with the New Deal era, best known for her vibrant frescoes and contributions to public art in San Francisco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Jane Darwell Description of subject: Jane Darwell was an American character actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance as Ma Joad in the film adaptation of "The Grapes of Wrath."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.