Jerry Durrance
E611056
Jerry Durrance is a sophisticated but manipulative romantic rival in the classic 1942 film "Now, Voyager."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerry Durrance canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6673873 — 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: Jerry Durrance Context triple: [Now, Voyager, mainCharacter, Jerry Durrance]
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A.
Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
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B.
Jerry Travers
Jerry Travers is the charming, tap-dancing American performer played by Fred Astaire in the classic 1935 musical film "Top Hat."
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C.
Derrick Sherwin
Derrick Sherwin was a British television producer, script editor, and writer best known for his influential work on the classic science fiction series Doctor Who during the late 1960s.
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D.
Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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E.
Dennis Puleston
Dennis Puleston was a British-born American naturalist, adventurer, and conservationist best known for his pioneering role in the modern environmental movement and efforts to protect wildlife from pesticide pollution.
- 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: Jerry Durrance Target entity description: Jerry Durrance is a sophisticated but manipulative romantic rival in the classic 1942 film "Now, Voyager."
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A.
Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
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B.
Jerry Travers
Jerry Travers is the charming, tap-dancing American performer played by Fred Astaire in the classic 1935 musical film "Top Hat."
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C.
Derrick Sherwin
Derrick Sherwin was a British television producer, script editor, and writer best known for his influential work on the classic science fiction series Doctor Who during the late 1960s.
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D.
Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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E.
Dennis Puleston
Dennis Puleston was a British-born American naturalist, adventurer, and conservationist best known for his pioneering role in the modern environmental movement and efforts to protect wildlife from pesticide pollution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Now, Voyager ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Olive Higgins Prouty ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Now, Voyager (novel) ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
manipulative
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sophisticated ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | romantic drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | romantic rival ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
Now, Voyager (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Now, Voyager (novel)
|
| productionCompanyOfWork |
Warner Bros.
ⓘ
linked to:
Warner Bros. Entertainment
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| settingPeriod | early 1940s ⓘ |
| workDirector | Irving Rapper ⓘ |
| workLeadActor |
Bette Davis
ⓘ
Claude Rains ⓘ Paul Henreid ⓘ |
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: Jerry Durrance Description of subject: Jerry Durrance is a sophisticated but manipulative romantic rival in the classic 1942 film "Now, Voyager."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.