Myrna Loy
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Myrna Loy was a popular American film actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, best known for her sophisticated, witty roles in classics such as The Thin Man series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Myrna Loy canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201373 — 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: Myrna Loy Context triple: [Test Pilot (1938 film), starring, Myrna Loy]
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A.
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.
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B.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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C.
Fay Bainter
Fay Bainter was an American stage and film actress, active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, who became one of the first performers to receive Academy Award nominations in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories in the same year.
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D.
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck was a versatile and acclaimed American film and television actress, celebrated for her hard-edged yet emotionally rich performances in classic Hollywood cinema and later in prominent TV dramas.
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E.
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
- 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: Myrna Loy Target entity description: Myrna Loy was a popular American film actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, best known for her sophisticated, witty roles in classics such as The Thin Man series.
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A.
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.
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B.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-American actress and major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, renowned for her work in both screwball comedies and dramas and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for "It Happened One Night."
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C.
Fay Bainter
Fay Bainter was an American stage and film actress, active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, who became one of the first performers to receive Academy Award nominations in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories in the same year.
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D.
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck was a versatile and acclaimed American film and television actress, celebrated for her hard-edged yet emotionally rich performances in classic Hollywood cinema and later in prominent TV dramas.
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E.
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (74)
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: Myrna Loy Description of subject: Myrna Loy was a popular American film actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age, best known for her sophisticated, witty roles in classics such as The Thin Man series.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.