Dorothy DeLay
E184651
Dorothy DeLay was a renowned American violin teacher at the Juilliard School, celebrated for mentoring many of the 20th century’s leading virtuoso violinists.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorothy DeLay canonical | 3 |
| Dorothy Stuart DeLay | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1583901 — 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: Dorothy DeLay Context triple: [Itzhak Perlman, studiedUnder, Dorothy DeLay]
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A.
Caroline Allpass
Caroline Allpass was the first wife of British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe, whose life was cut short in a car accident in the early 1970s.
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B.
Mary Crosby
Mary Crosby is an American actress best known for her role as Kristin Shepard on the television series "Dallas."
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C.
Pauline Pfeiffer
Pauline Pfeiffer was an American journalist and the second wife of Ernest Hemingway, known for her role in his life during his Paris years and her portrayal in his memoir "A Moveable Feast."
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D.
Barbaree Earl Nielsen
Barbaree Earl Nielsen is an American actress best known as the longtime wife and widow of comic actor Leslie Nielsen.
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E.
Patricia Price
Patricia Price is best known as the first wife of legendary American comedian and actor Richard Pryor.
- 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: Dorothy DeLay Target entity description: Dorothy DeLay was a renowned American violin teacher at the Juilliard School, celebrated for mentoring many of the 20th century’s leading virtuoso violinists.
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A.
Caroline Allpass
Caroline Allpass was the first wife of British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe, whose life was cut short in a car accident in the early 1970s.
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B.
Mary Crosby
Mary Crosby is an American actress best known for her role as Kristin Shepard on the television series "Dallas."
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C.
Pauline Pfeiffer
Pauline Pfeiffer was an American journalist and the second wife of Ernest Hemingway, known for her role in his life during his Paris years and her portrayal in his memoir "A Moveable Feast."
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D.
Barbaree Earl Nielsen
Barbaree Earl Nielsen is an American actress best known as the longtime wife and widow of comic actor Leslie Nielsen.
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E.
Patricia Price
Patricia Price is best known as the first wife of legendary American comedian and actor Richard Pryor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Dorothy DeLay Description of subject: Dorothy DeLay was a renowned American violin teacher at the Juilliard School, celebrated for mentoring many of the 20th century’s leading virtuoso violinists.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dorothy Stuart DeLay