Louise Howell
E758697
Louise Howell is the psychologically tormented protagonist of the 1947 film noir "Possessed," portrayed by Joan Crawford as a woman descending into madness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Louise Howell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7345197 — 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: Louise Howell Context triple: [Possessed (1947 film), mainCharacter, Louise Howell]
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A.
Louise Thomas
Louise Thomas was the wife of pioneering British aviation designer and test pilot Geoffrey de Havilland.
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B.
Louise Saunders
Louise Saunders was an American writer and playwright best known for her marriage to influential editor Maxwell Perkins and for authoring children’s literature and stage works in the early 20th century.
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C.
Louise Franklin
Louise Franklin was the wife of British actor George Coulouris, known primarily in relation to his personal life.
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D.
Mildred Howells
Mildred Howells was an American writer and the daughter of prominent author and editor William Dean Howells.
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E.
Anne Howells
Anne Howells was a distinguished British mezzo-soprano renowned for her performances in opera houses worldwide during the late 20th century.
- 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: Louise Howell Target entity description: Louise Howell is the psychologically tormented protagonist of the 1947 film noir "Possessed," portrayed by Joan Crawford as a woman descending into madness.
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A.
Louise Thomas
Louise Thomas was the wife of pioneering British aviation designer and test pilot Geoffrey de Havilland.
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B.
Louise Saunders
Louise Saunders was an American writer and playwright best known for her marriage to influential editor Maxwell Perkins and for authoring children’s literature and stage works in the early 20th century.
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C.
Louise Franklin
Louise Franklin was the wife of British actor George Coulouris, known primarily in relation to his personal life.
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D.
Mildred Howells
Mildred Howells was an American writer and the daughter of prominent author and editor William Dean Howells.
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E.
Anne Howells
Anne Howells was a distinguished British mezzo-soprano renowned for her performances in opera houses worldwide during the late 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Possessed ⓘ |
| appearsInFilmYear | 1947 ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | film noir ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdForWork |
Possessed (1947 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Possessed
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| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasMedium | film ⓘ |
| hasPsychologicalState | psychologically tormented ⓘ |
| hasRoleInNarrative | protagonist ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | unreliable perspective on reality ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Joan Crawford ⓘ |
| undergoesCharacterArc | descent into madness ⓘ |
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: Louise Howell Description of subject: Louise Howell is the psychologically tormented protagonist of the 1947 film noir "Possessed," portrayed by Joan Crawford as a woman descending into madness.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Possessed