Della Street
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Della Street is the loyal and highly capable secretary and confidante of fictional defense attorney Perry Mason in Erle Stanley Gardner’s novels and their adaptations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Della Street canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201186 — 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: Della Street Context triple: [Perry Mason, associatedWith, Della Street]
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A.
Kate Warne
Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States, renowned for her pioneering investigative work with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and her role in foiling an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Elizabeth Watson
Elizabeth Watson is known as the wife of molecular biologist and DNA double-helix co-discoverer James Watson.
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C.
Mrs. Scudder
Mrs. Scudder is a devout, practical New England widow who serves as a central moral and maternal figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel *The Minister’s Wooing*.
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D.
Maura Isles
Maura Isles is a brilliant, fashion-conscious medical examiner and one of the two central protagonists in the crime drama series "Rizzoli & Isles."
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E.
Sam Spade
Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
- 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: Della Street Target entity description: Della Street is the loyal and highly capable secretary and confidante of fictional defense attorney Perry Mason in Erle Stanley Gardner’s novels and their adaptations.
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A.
Kate Warne
Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States, renowned for her pioneering investigative work with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and her role in foiling an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Elizabeth Watson
Elizabeth Watson is known as the wife of molecular biologist and DNA double-helix co-discoverer James Watson.
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C.
Mrs. Scudder
Mrs. Scudder is a devout, practical New England widow who serves as a central moral and maternal figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel *The Minister’s Wooing*.
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D.
Maura Isles
Maura Isles is a brilliant, fashion-conscious medical examiner and one of the two central protagonists in the crime drama series "Rizzoli & Isles."
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E.
Sam Spade
Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Perry Mason
ⓘ
surface form:
Perry Mason (TV film series)
Perry Mason ⓘ
surface form:
Perry Mason (TV series, 1957)
Perry Mason ⓘ
surface form:
Perry Mason novel series
Perry Mason ⓘ
surface form:
The New Perry Mason (1973 TV series)
|
| associatedWith |
Los Angeles legal community
ⓘ
Paul Drake ⓘ Perry Mason ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
discreet
ⓘ
efficient ⓘ highly capable ⓘ intelligent ⓘ loyal ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Erle Stanley Gardner ⓘ |
| employer | Perry Mason ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Perry Mason novel series by Erle Stanley Gardner ⓘ |
| franchise | Perry Mason franchise ⓘ |
| franchiseOrigin | Perry Mason novels by Erle Stanley Gardner ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
ⓘ
legal fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
novel ⓘ television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
secretary to defense attorney
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| notableFor |
professional partnership with Perry Mason
ⓘ
role in solving legal cases ⓘ |
| occupation |
confidante
ⓘ
legal secretary ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Barbara Hale
ⓘ
Juliet Rylance ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Perry Mason
ⓘ
surface form:
Perry Mason (1957 TV series)
Perry Mason ⓘ
surface form:
Perry Mason (2020 TV series)
|
| relationshipToPerryMason |
confidante
ⓘ
secretary ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| worksFor | Perry Mason ⓘ |
| worksInField |
criminal defense
ⓘ
law ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Della Street Description of subject: Della Street is the loyal and highly capable secretary and confidante of fictional defense attorney Perry Mason in Erle Stanley Gardner’s novels and their adaptations.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.