Altovise Davis
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Altovise Davis was an American dancer and actress best known as the longtime wife and widow of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Altovise Davis canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6568590 — 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: Altovise Davis Context triple: [Sammy Davis Jr., spouse, Altovise Davis]
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A.
Vidal Davis
Vidal Davis is an American drummer and record producer best known as one half of the R&B and hip-hop production duo Dre & Vidal.
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B.
Ruby Aldridge
Ruby Aldridge is an American fashion model known for her runway and editorial work with major designers and magazines.
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C.
Rennie Davis
Rennie Davis was a prominent American anti–Vietnam War activist and one of the Chicago Seven defendants tried for protesting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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D.
Santee Smith
Santee Smith is a Mohawk artist, dancer, and choreographer from Six Nations of the Grand River, renowned for her Indigenous-centered performance work and leadership in the arts and education.
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E.
OJ Haywood
OJ Haywood is the quiet, determined horse rancher protagonist of Jordan Peele’s sci-fi horror film "Nope."
- 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: Altovise Davis Target entity description: Altovise Davis was an American dancer and actress best known as the longtime wife and widow of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
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A.
Vidal Davis
Vidal Davis is an American drummer and record producer best known as one half of the R&B and hip-hop production duo Dre & Vidal.
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B.
Ruby Aldridge
Ruby Aldridge is an American fashion model known for her runway and editorial work with major designers and magazines.
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C.
Rennie Davis
Rennie Davis was a prominent American anti–Vietnam War activist and one of the Chicago Seven defendants tried for protesting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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D.
Santee Smith
Santee Smith is a Mohawk artist, dancer, and choreographer from Six Nations of the Grand River, renowned for her Indigenous-centered performance work and leadership in the arts and education.
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E.
OJ Haywood
OJ Haywood is the quiet, determined horse rancher protagonist of Jordan Peele’s sci-fi horror film "Nope."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
dancer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthName | Altovise Joanne Gore ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| fameStatus | best known as wife of Sammy Davis Jr. ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widow of Sammy Davis Jr. ⓘ |
| marriedToCelebrity | Sammy Davis Jr. ⓘ |
| name | Altovise Davis ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the longtime wife of Sammy Davis Jr.
ⓘ
being the widow of Sammy Davis Jr. ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
dancer ⓘ |
| performedIn |
stage productions
ⓘ
television productions ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Sammy Davis Jr. ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
actor
ⓘ
dancer ⓘ entertainer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
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: Altovise Davis Description of subject: Altovise Davis was an American dancer and actress best known as the longtime wife and widow of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.