Ellen Graham
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Ellen Graham is a central female character in the 1942 film noir "This Gun for Hire," often remembered as the nightclub singer who becomes entangled with a hired assassin and a wartime espionage plot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ellen Graham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7024828 — 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: Ellen Graham Context triple: [This Gun for Hire, character, Ellen Graham]
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A.
Ellen Kershaw
Ellen Kershaw is an American philanthropist and author best known for her charitable work and public role alongside her husband, MLB pitcher Clayton Kershaw.
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B.
Ellen Douglas
Ellen Douglas is the virtuous and noble heroine of Sir Walter Scott’s narrative poem "The Lady of the Lake," central to its romantic and political intrigues in the Scottish Highlands.
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C.
Ellen Agnus Pitt
Ellen Agnus Pitt was the mother of the influential English illustrator and author Aubrey Beardsley.
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D.
Ellen Evangeline Hovick
Ellen Evangeline Hovick is the birth name of June Havoc, an American actress, dancer, and stage director known for her work in vaudeville, film, and theater.
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E.
Ellen Louise
Ellen Louise was the wife of American film actor Robert Armstrong, best known for his role in the classic movie "King Kong."
- 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: Ellen Graham Target entity description: Ellen Graham is a central female character in the 1942 film noir "This Gun for Hire," often remembered as the nightclub singer who becomes entangled with a hired assassin and a wartime espionage plot.
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A.
Ellen Kershaw
Ellen Kershaw is an American philanthropist and author best known for her charitable work and public role alongside her husband, MLB pitcher Clayton Kershaw.
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B.
Ellen Douglas
Ellen Douglas is the virtuous and noble heroine of Sir Walter Scott’s narrative poem "The Lady of the Lake," central to its romantic and political intrigues in the Scottish Highlands.
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C.
Ellen Agnus Pitt
Ellen Agnus Pitt was the mother of the influential English illustrator and author Aubrey Beardsley.
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D.
Ellen Evangeline Hovick
Ellen Evangeline Hovick is the birth name of June Havoc, an American actress, dancer, and stage director known for her work in vaudeville, film, and theater.
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E.
Ellen Louise
Ellen Louise was the wife of American film actor Robert Armstrong, best known for his role in the classic movie "King Kong."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | This Gun for Hire ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
crime
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espionage ⓘ romantic tension ⓘ |
| characterType | protagonist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| entangledWith | hired assassin ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreContext | film noir ⓘ |
| involvedIn | wartime espionage plot ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a nightclub singer entangled with an assassin
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involvement in wartime espionage in This Gun for Hire ⓘ |
| occupation | nightclub singer ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War II era ⓘ |
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: Ellen Graham Description of subject: Ellen Graham is a central female character in the 1942 film noir "This Gun for Hire," often remembered as the nightclub singer who becomes entangled with a hired assassin and a wartime espionage plot.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.