Jane Durrell
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Jane Durrell was the birth name of Jane Wyman, the Academy Award–winning American film and television actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jane Durrell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T639426 — 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: Jane Durrell Context triple: [Jane Wyman, alsoKnownAs, Jane Durrell]
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A.
Katharine Louisa Stanley
Katharine Louisa Stanley was a member of the prominent Stanley family and the mother of British philosopher and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell.
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B.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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C.
Elizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century best known as the mother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, one of Britain’s most celebrated military commanders.
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D.
Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
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E.
Dorothy Fane
Dorothy Fane was an 18th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent statesman in Georgian England.
- 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: Jane Durrell Target entity description: Jane Durrell was the birth name of Jane Wyman, the Academy Award–winning American film and television actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.
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A.
Katharine Louisa Stanley
Katharine Louisa Stanley was a member of the prominent Stanley family and the mother of British philosopher and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell.
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B.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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C.
Elizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century best known as the mother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, one of Britain’s most celebrated military commanders.
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D.
Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
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E.
Dorothy Fane
Dorothy Fane was an 18th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent statesman in Georgian England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Academy Award winner
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Actress ⓘ |
| birthName | Jane Durrell ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Durrell ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Jane ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFact | first wife of Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| notableWork |
film acting
ⓘ
television acting ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hollywood film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood
|
| positionHeld | First Lady of the Screen Actors Guild (informal, as wife of Ronald Reagan) ⓘ |
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Hollywood ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jane Durrell
ⓘ
Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| stageName | Jane Wyman ⓘ |
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: Jane Durrell Description of subject: Jane Durrell was the birth name of Jane Wyman, the Academy Award–winning American film and television actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.