Cheryl Crane
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Cheryl Crane is an American real estate broker and author best known as the daughter of actress Lana Turner and for her involvement in the 1958 killing of Turner's boyfriend Johnny Stompanato, which was ruled justifiable homicide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cheryl Crane canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7266974 — 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: Cheryl Crane Context triple: [Lana Turner, child, Cheryl Crane]
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A.
Irma Bunt
Irma Bunt is a villainous SPECTRE operative and henchwoman to Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond franchise, most notably remembered for her role in the tragic climax of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."
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B.
Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush is an American actress best known for her work in mid-20th-century film and television, including prominent roles in dramas and science fiction classics.
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C.
Marion Jacobs
Marion Jacobs is the birth name of Little Walter, the influential American blues harmonica player and singer known for revolutionizing amplified harmonica in Chicago blues.
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D.
Marilyn Miller
Marilyn Miller was a celebrated American Broadway musical star of the 1910s and 1920s, renowned for her charismatic dancing, singing, and stage presence.
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E.
Mary Marquardt
Mary Marquardt is an American former chef and illustrator best known as Harrison Ford’s first wife, to whom he was married from 1964 to 1979.
- 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: Cheryl Crane Target entity description: Cheryl Crane is an American real estate broker and author best known as the daughter of actress Lana Turner and for her involvement in the 1958 killing of Turner's boyfriend Johnny Stompanato, which was ruled justifiable homicide.
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A.
Irma Bunt
Irma Bunt is a villainous SPECTRE operative and henchwoman to Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond franchise, most notably remembered for her role in the tragic climax of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."
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B.
Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush is an American actress best known for her work in mid-20th-century film and television, including prominent roles in dramas and science fiction classics.
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C.
Marion Jacobs
Marion Jacobs is the birth name of Little Walter, the influential American blues harmonica player and singer known for revolutionizing amplified harmonica in Chicago blues.
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D.
Marilyn Miller
Marilyn Miller was a celebrated American Broadway musical star of the 1910s and 1920s, renowned for her charismatic dancing, singing, and stage presence.
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E.
Mary Marquardt
Mary Marquardt is an American former chef and illustrator best known as Harrison Ford’s first wife, to whom he was married from 1964 to 1979.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
real estate broker ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Palm Springs metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Palm Springs
|
| causeOfNotability |
daughter of Lana Turner
ⓘ
involvement in 1958 killing of Johnny Stompanato ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-07-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Hollywood Professional School ⓘ |
| employer | real estate firms in Palm Springs area ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| father | Stephen Crane (restaurateur) ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
ⓘ
real estate ⓘ true crime writing ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
memoir ⓘ |
| hasOccupationHistory | former child of Hollywood celebrity household ⓘ |
| hasStepfather |
Joseph Stephen "Joe" Stephen Crane (through remarriage contexts)
ⓘ
linked to:
Joseph Stephen Crane
Lex Barker ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Johnny Stompanato case ⓘ Lana Turner ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalOutcome | 1958 killing of Johnny Stompanato ruled justifiable homicide ⓘ |
| mother | Lana Turner ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
killing of Johnny Stompanato
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public coming out as lesbian ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Lana Turner
ⓘ
Stephen Crane (restaurateur) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Detour: A Hollywood Story
ⓘ
The Bad Always Die Twice ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
real estate broker ⓘ |
| participantIn | killing of Johnny Stompanato ⓘ |
| partner | Joyce LeRoy ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Palm Springs ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfActivity |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
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: Cheryl Crane Description of subject: Cheryl Crane is an American real estate broker and author best known as the daughter of actress Lana Turner and for her involvement in the 1958 killing of Turner's boyfriend Johnny Stompanato, which was ruled justifiable homicide.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.