Penny Carroll
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Penny Carroll is the witty and independent love interest played by Ginger Rogers opposite Fred Astaire in the 1936 musical film "Swing Time."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Penny Carroll canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9326898 — 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: Penny Carroll Context triple: [John "Lucky" Garnett, hasLoveInterest, Penny Carroll]
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A.
Peg Maltby
Peg Maltby was an English-born Australian illustrator and children's book author best known for her whimsical fairy-themed artwork and classic picture books.
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B.
Dorothy Squires
Dorothy Squires was a Welsh singer known for her powerful voice and dramatic torch songs, who enjoyed significant popularity in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Pat Carroll
Pat Carroll was an American actress and comedian best known for voicing the sea witch Ursula in Disney’s animated film "The Little Mermaid."
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D.
Pat Carroll
Pat Carroll is a former American shooting guard best known for his prolific three-point shooting and standout collegiate career with Saint Joseph's University in the early 2000s.
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E.
Barbara Hackett
Barbara Hackett is a Canadian businesswoman and home renovator best known as the wife of former Toronto mayor John Tory.
- 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: Penny Carroll Target entity description: Penny Carroll is the witty and independent love interest played by Ginger Rogers opposite Fred Astaire in the 1936 musical film "Swing Time."
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A.
Peg Maltby
Peg Maltby was an English-born Australian illustrator and children's book author best known for her whimsical fairy-themed artwork and classic picture books.
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B.
Dorothy Squires
Dorothy Squires was a Welsh singer known for her powerful voice and dramatic torch songs, who enjoyed significant popularity in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Pat Carroll
Pat Carroll was an American actress and comedian best known for voicing the sea witch Ursula in Disney’s animated film "The Little Mermaid."
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D.
Pat Carroll
Pat Carroll is a former American shooting guard best known for his prolific three-point shooting and standout collegiate career with Saint Joseph's University in the early 2000s.
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E.
Barbara Hackett
Barbara Hackett is a Canadian businesswoman and home renovator best known as the wife of former Toronto mayor John Tory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Swing Time ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Swing Time ⓘ |
| characterInGenre |
musical film
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Swing Time ⓘ |
| describedAs |
independent
ⓘ
witty ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | John "Lucky" Garnett ⓘ |
| hasNotableScene |
dance sequence to "Never Gonna Dance"
ⓘ
dance sequence to "Pick Yourself Up" ⓘ dance sequence to "The Way You Look Tonight" ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | dance instructor ⓘ |
| hasScreenPartner |
Lucky Garnett
ⓘ
linked to:
John "Lucky" Garnett
|
| hasSkill |
dancing
ⓘ
singing ⓘ |
| isLoveInterestOf | John "Lucky" Garnett ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
female lead
ⓘ
romantic lead ⓘ |
| partOf | Swing Time cast ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ginger Rogers ⓘ |
| screenRelationship | dance partner of Lucky Garnett ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 1936 ⓘ |
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: Penny Carroll Description of subject: Penny Carroll is the witty and independent love interest played by Ginger Rogers opposite Fred Astaire in the 1936 musical film "Swing Time."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.