Cleva Creighton
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Cleva Creighton was the first wife of silent film star Lon Chaney and the mother of actor Lon Chaney Jr., known for her tumultuous marriage and its impact on Chaney’s early life and career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cleva Creighton canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6621180 — 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: Cleva Creighton Context triple: [Lon Chaney, spouse, Cleva Creighton]
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A.
Cleo McDowell
Cleo McDowell is a fast-food restaurant owner and the protective father of Lisa McDowell in the comedy film "Coming to America."
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B.
Clair Popkin
Clair Popkin is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed rock-climbing documentary film "Free Solo."
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C.
Celia Ladd
Celia Ladd is the wife of acclaimed film director and screenwriter John Huston.
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D.
Beth Kittridge
Beth Kittridge is a fictional character portrayed by Canadian actress Torri Higginson, known from her work in television and film.
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E.
Cornelia Connelly
Cornelia Connelly was a 19th-century American-born Roman Catholic nun and educator who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a religious congregation dedicated to the education and spiritual formation of young people.
- 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: Cleva Creighton Target entity description: Cleva Creighton was the first wife of silent film star Lon Chaney and the mother of actor Lon Chaney Jr., known for her tumultuous marriage and its impact on Chaney’s early life and career.
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A.
Cleo McDowell
Cleo McDowell is a fast-food restaurant owner and the protective father of Lisa McDowell in the comedy film "Coming to America."
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B.
Clair Popkin
Clair Popkin is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed rock-climbing documentary film "Free Solo."
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C.
Celia Ladd
Celia Ladd is the wife of acclaimed film director and screenwriter John Huston.
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D.
Beth Kittridge
Beth Kittridge is a fictional character portrayed by Canadian actress Torri Higginson, known from her work in television and film.
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E.
Cornelia Connelly
Cornelia Connelly was a 19th-century American-born Roman Catholic nun and educator who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a religious congregation dedicated to the education and spiritual formation of young people.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American singer
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film actor ⓘ person ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeInField | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Cleva Chaney ⓘ |
| associatedWith | silent film era Hollywood ⓘ |
| child | Lon Chaney Jr. ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
mother of Lon Chaney Jr.
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spouse of Lon Chaney ⓘ |
| impactOn | Lon Chaney ⓘ |
| impactType | influenced Lon Chaney’s early life and career ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being part of the Chaney acting family
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role in the personal life of Lon Chaney ⓘ tumultuous marriage to Lon Chaney ⓘ |
| marriageStatusWithLonChaney | tumultuous ⓘ |
| mother | Cleva Creighton ⓘ |
| name | Cleva Creighton ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of Lon Chaney
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being the mother of Lon Chaney Jr. ⓘ |
| occupation | singer ⓘ |
| spouse |
Cleva Creighton
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Lon Chaney ⓘ |
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: Cleva Creighton Description of subject: Cleva Creighton was the first wife of silent film star Lon Chaney and the mother of actor Lon Chaney Jr., known for her tumultuous marriage and its impact on Chaney’s early life and career.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.