Eugenie Besserer

E178982

Eugenie Besserer was a Canadian-born American actress best known for her role as the protagonist’s mother in the landmark early sound film "The Jazz Singer" (1927).

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Label Occurrences
Eugenie Besserer canonical 3

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf actor
film actor
person
stage actor
activeIn early sound film era
silent film era
countryOfBirth Canada
countryOfCitizenship Canada
United States of America
countryOfDeath United States of America
familyName Besserer
fieldOfWork cinema
theatre
genre drama film
givenName Eugenie
knownFor role as the protagonist’s mother in The Jazz Singer
languageOfWorkOrName English
name Eugenie Besserer self-link
nationality Canadian-American
notableRole mother of the protagonist in The Jazz Singer
notableWork The Jazz Singer (1927 film)
surface form: The Jazz Singer
occupation actress
film actress
stage actress
partOf early Hollywood film industry
performedIn Smilin' Through
The Big Parade
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)
The Isle of Lost Ships
The Jazz Singer (1927 film)
surface form: The Jazz Singer

The Man Who Laughs (1928 film)
surface form: The Man Who Laughs

The Patent Leather Kid
The Phantom of the Opera
surface form: The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)

The Sea Beast
The Singing Fool
placeOfBirth Ottawa
placeOfDeath Los Angeles
sexOrGender female
stateOfDeath California, United States
surface form: California
workLocation Hollywood
Los Angeles

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: Eugenie Besserer
Description of subject: Eugenie Besserer was a Canadian-born American actress best known for her role as the protagonist’s mother in the landmark early sound film "The Jazz Singer" (1927).

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Jazz Singer (1927 film) starring Eugenie Besserer
Eugenie Besserer name Eugenie Besserer self-link
Thunderbolt (1929 film) starring Eugenie Besserer