Clara Bow
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Clara Bow was a hugely popular American silent film actress of the 1920s, famously known as the original "It Girl" and a defining sex symbol of the Jazz Age.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clara Bow canonical | 5 |
| Clara Gordon Bow | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T948212 — 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: Clara Bow Context triple: [Kensico Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Clara Bow]
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A.
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor was an American film actress best known as a major star of the silent and early sound eras, including her acclaimed role in the original "A Star Is Born."
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B.
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford was a pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress, producer, and co-founder of United Artists, often called "America's Sweetheart" and regarded as one of early Hollywood's most influential stars.
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C.
Linda Christian
Linda Christian was a Mexican-born Hollywood actress best known as the first on-screen "Bond girl" in the 1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale.
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D.
Lulie Swanson
Lulie Swanson was the woman who served as the sponsor for the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) at its launching ceremony.
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E.
Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard was a celebrated American film actress of the 1930s, best known for her sharp wit and leading roles in classic screwball comedies.
- 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: Clara Bow Target entity description: Clara Bow was a hugely popular American silent film actress of the 1920s, famously known as the original "It Girl" and a defining sex symbol of the Jazz Age.
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A.
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor was an American film actress best known as a major star of the silent and early sound eras, including her acclaimed role in the original "A Star Is Born."
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B.
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford was a pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress, producer, and co-founder of United Artists, often called "America's Sweetheart" and regarded as one of early Hollywood's most influential stars.
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C.
Linda Christian
Linda Christian was a Mexican-born Hollywood actress best known as the first on-screen "Bond girl" in the 1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale.
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D.
Lulie Swanson
Lulie Swanson was the woman who served as the sponsor for the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) at its launching ceremony.
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E.
Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard was a celebrated American film actress of the 1930s, best known for her sharp wit and leading roles in classic screwball comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
cultural icon ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ sex symbol ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1933 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920 ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries ⓘ
surface form:
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
heart attack
ⓘ
myocardial infarction ⓘ |
| child |
Rex Bell
ⓘ
surface form:
Rex Bell Jr.
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1905-07-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1965-09-27 ⓘ |
| era |
Roaring Twenties
ⓘ
surface form:
Jazz Age
|
| ethnicGroup | American of English descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Bow ⓘ |
| fullName |
Clara Bow
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Clara Gordon Bow
|
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Clara ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1931 ⓘ |
| movement | silent film era ⓘ |
| nickname | It Girl ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a defining sex symbol of the Jazz Age
ⓘ
being the original "It Girl" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
It
ⓘ
It (1927 film) ⓘ Mantrap ⓘ Wings ⓘ Wings (1927 film) ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ
surface form:
New York
New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | Nevada ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Rex Bell ⓘ |
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: Clara Bow Description of subject: Clara Bow was a hugely popular American silent film actress of the 1920s, famously known as the original "It Girl" and a defining sex symbol of the Jazz Age.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Clara Gordon Bow