Jill Esmond
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Jill Esmond was a British stage and film actress best known as the first wife of Laurence Olivier and for her work in early 20th-century theatre and cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jill Esmond canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T278809 — 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: Jill Esmond Context triple: [Laurence Olivier, spouse, Jill Esmond]
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A.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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B.
Katherine Hudson
Katherine Hudson was the wife of English explorer Henry Hudson, known primarily through historical records of his voyages and family.
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C.
Robin Stokes
Robin Stokes is one of the four central women in Terry McMillan’s novel and its film adaptation "Waiting to Exhale," known for navigating love, career, and friendship in 1990s Phoenix.
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D.
Katherine Oppenheimer
Katherine Oppenheimer was an American biologist and former Communist Party member best known as the politically controversial wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project era.
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E.
Susannah Martin
Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
- 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: Jill Esmond Target entity description: Jill Esmond was a British stage and film actress best known as the first wife of Laurence Olivier and for her work in early 20th-century theatre and cinema.
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A.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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B.
Katherine Hudson
Katherine Hudson was the wife of English explorer Henry Hudson, known primarily through historical records of his voyages and family.
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C.
Robin Stokes
Robin Stokes is one of the four central women in Terry McMillan’s novel and its film adaptation "Waiting to Exhale," known for navigating love, career, and friendship in 1990s Phoenix.
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D.
Katherine Oppenheimer
Katherine Oppenheimer was an American biologist and former Communist Party member best known as the politically controversial wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project era.
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E.
Susannah Martin
Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Jill Esmond Description of subject: Jill Esmond was a British stage and film actress best known as the first wife of Laurence Olivier and for her work in early 20th-century theatre and cinema.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Laurence Olivier