Shirl Bernheim
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Shirl Bernheim was an American character actress known for her supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s "Breakfast of Champions."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shirl Bernheim canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9854035 — 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: Shirl Bernheim Context triple: [Breakfast of Champions, hasCastMember, Shirl Bernheim]
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A.
Bernice Stegers
Bernice Stegers is a British actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and various British TV dramas.
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B.
Shirley N. Weber
Shirley N. Weber is an American politician and academic who became California’s first African American Secretary of State after serving in the State Assembly and as a longtime educator.
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C.
Beverly Van Zile
Beverly Van Zile is best known as the second wife of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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D.
Eileen Pardee
Eileen Pardee is known as the former spouse of Anthony Dryden Marshall, the American theatrical producer and son of philanthropist Brooke Astor.
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E.
Tillie Schlaine
Tillie Schlaine is the central female protagonist of the 1972 romantic dramedy film "Pete 'n' Tillie," portrayed by Carol Burnett.
- 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: Shirl Bernheim Target entity description: Shirl Bernheim was an American character actress known for her supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s "Breakfast of Champions."
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A.
Bernice Stegers
Bernice Stegers is a British actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and various British TV dramas.
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B.
Shirley N. Weber
Shirley N. Weber is an American politician and academic who became California’s first African American Secretary of State after serving in the State Assembly and as a longtime educator.
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C.
Beverly Van Zile
Beverly Van Zile is best known as the second wife of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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D.
Eileen Pardee
Eileen Pardee is known as the former spouse of Anthony Dryden Marshall, the American theatrical producer and son of philanthropist Brooke Astor.
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E.
Tillie Schlaine
Tillie Schlaine is the central female protagonist of the 1972 romantic dramedy film "Pete 'n' Tillie," portrayed by Carol Burnett.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ novel ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| author | Kurt Vonnegut ⓘ |
| basedOn |
"Breakfast of Champions" (novel)
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Kurt Vonnegut’s novel "Breakfast of Champions" ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | American character actress ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Breakfast of Champions (film)
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linked to:
Breakfast of Champions
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| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| workType | supporting roles ⓘ |
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: Shirl Bernheim Description of subject: Shirl Bernheim was an American character actress known for her supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s "Breakfast of Champions."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.