Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport)
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Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport) was an American silent film actress, director, and producer known for her socially conscious films and for continuing her career under her married name after the death of her husband, actor Wallace Reid.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9234508 — 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: Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport) Context triple: [The Red Kimona, hasProducerCreditAs, Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport)]
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A.
Maud Ellen Dixon
Maud Ellen Dixon was the wife of New Zealand physicist and science administrator Ernest Marsden.
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B.
Alice Brady
Alice Brady was an American stage and film actress of the early 20th century, best known for her character roles in both silent and sound films and for winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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C.
Helen Sullivan Crothers
Helen Sullivan Crothers was the longtime wife of American actor and musician Scatman Crothers, with whom she shared a decades-long marriage until his death.
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D.
Phyllis Vance
Phyllis Vance is a soft-spoken yet sharp-witted saleswoman at Dunder Mifflin in the U.S. sitcom "The Office," known for her maternal demeanor and surprising moments of sass.
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E.
Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic roles in film and television across several decades.
- 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: Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport) Target entity description: Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport) was an American silent film actress, director, and producer known for her socially conscious films and for continuing her career under her married name after the death of her husband, actor Wallace Reid.
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A.
Maud Ellen Dixon
Maud Ellen Dixon was the wife of New Zealand physicist and science administrator Ernest Marsden.
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B.
Alice Brady
Alice Brady was an American stage and film actress of the early 20th century, best known for her character roles in both silent and sound films and for winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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C.
Helen Sullivan Crothers
Helen Sullivan Crothers was the longtime wife of American actor and musician Scatman Crothers, with whom she shared a decades-long marriage until his death.
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D.
Phyllis Vance
Phyllis Vance is a soft-spoken yet sharp-witted saleswoman at Dunder Mifflin in the U.S. sitcom "The Office," known for her maternal demeanor and surprising moments of sass.
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E.
Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes was an American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, comedic roles in film and television across several decades.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Dorothy Davenport Reid
ⓘ
linked to:
Dorothy Davenport
Mrs. Wallace Reid ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Wallace Reid ⓘ |
| continuedCareerUnderName | Mrs. Wallace Reid ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | silent film era ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | motion pictures ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | silent film ⓘ |
| industry |
American film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
American cinema
|
| knownFor | using film to address social issues ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widow of Wallace Reid ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Dorothy Davenport ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | socially conscious films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| spouse | Wallace Reid ⓘ |
| usedProfessionalNameAfterSpouseDeath | true ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport) Description of subject: Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport) was an American silent film actress, director, and producer known for her socially conscious films and for continuing her career under her married name after the death of her husband, actor Wallace Reid.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.