Martha Vickers
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Martha Vickers was an American film and television actress best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the classic noir film "The Big Sleep" (1946).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Martha Vickers canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T201017 — 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: Martha Vickers Context triple: [Mickey Rooney, spouse, Martha Vickers]
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A.
Mary Lee Ware
Mary Lee Ware was an American philanthropist and patron of science best known for financing Harvard University’s famous Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (the “Glass Flowers”).
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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Margaret Crocker
Margaret Crocker was a 19th-century Sacramento philanthropist best known for donating her late husband's extensive art collection and endowing what became the Crocker Art Museum.
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E.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
- 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: Martha Vickers Target entity description: Martha Vickers was an American film and television actress best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the classic noir film "The Big Sleep" (1946).
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A.
Mary Lee Ware
Mary Lee Ware was an American philanthropist and patron of science best known for financing Harvard University’s famous Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (the “Glass Flowers”).
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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Margaret Crocker
Margaret Crocker was a 19th-century Sacramento philanthropist best known for donating her late husband's extensive art collection and endowing what became the Crocker Art Museum.
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E.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Martha Vickers Description of subject: Martha Vickers was an American film and television actress best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the classic noir film "The Big Sleep" (1946).
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ninian Joseph Yule Jr.
subject linked to:
The Big Sleep
subject linked to:
Martha MacVicar