Hedy Lamarr
E115913
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American film actress and inventor renowned both for her glamorous Hollywood roles and for co-developing a pioneering frequency-hopping technology that laid groundwork for modern wireless communication.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hedy Lamarr canonical | 11 |
| Hedy Lamarr Day in Austria | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T984133 — 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: Hedy Lamarr Context triple: [Samson and Delilah (1949 film), stars, Hedy Lamarr]
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A.
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer renowned for her iconic film roles, distinctive voice, and androgynous, glamorous persona in classic Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Constance Adams DeMille
Constance Adams DeMille was the longtime wife and collaborator of pioneering Hollywood film director Cecil B. DeMille, active in early American cinema’s social and creative circles.
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C.
Cecilia DeMille Harper
Cecilia DeMille Harper was the daughter of legendary American film director and producer Cecil B. DeMille.
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D.
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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E.
Ilsa Lund
Ilsa Lund is the enigmatic former lover of Rick Blaine and the central female protagonist in the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," portrayed by Ingrid Bergman.
- 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: Hedy Lamarr Target entity description: Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American film actress and inventor renowned both for her glamorous Hollywood roles and for co-developing a pioneering frequency-hopping technology that laid groundwork for modern wireless communication.
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A.
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer renowned for her iconic film roles, distinctive voice, and androgynous, glamorous persona in classic Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Constance Adams DeMille
Constance Adams DeMille was the longtime wife and collaborator of pioneering Hollywood film director Cecil B. DeMille, active in early American cinema’s social and creative circles.
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C.
Cecilia DeMille Harper
Cecilia DeMille Harper was the daughter of legendary American film director and producer Cecil B. DeMille.
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D.
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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E.
Ilsa Lund
Ilsa Lund is the enigmatic former lover of Rick Blaine and the central female protagonist in the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," portrayed by Ingrid Bergman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
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: Hedy Lamarr Description of subject: Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American film actress and inventor renowned both for her glamorous Hollywood roles and for co-developing a pioneering frequency-hopping technology that laid groundwork for modern wireless communication.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hedy Lamarr Day in Austria
subject surface form:
Hedy Lamarr