Shelley Duvall
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Shelley Duvall is an American actress and producer best known for her distinctive, often eccentric screen presence in films by directors like Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick, as well as for hosting the children's anthology series "Faerie Tale Theatre."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shelley Duvall canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725450 — 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: Shelley Duvall Context triple: [The Shining (1980 film), starring, Shelley Duvall]
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A.
Diane Ladd
Diane Ladd is an American actress, director, and producer known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including her Academy Award–nominated performances and frequent collaborations with her daughter, Laura Dern.
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B.
Dee Wallace
Dee Wallace is an American actress best known for her role as the mother in the classic science-fiction film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
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C.
Nancy Olson
Nancy Olson is an American actress best known for her Academy Award–nominated role in the classic film "Sunset Boulevard."
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D.
Patty Fenn
Patty Fenn is a television producer and key character in the film "Money Monster," where she manages the chaotic live broadcast at the center of the story.
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E.
JoBeth Williams
JoBeth Williams is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Poltergeist," "The Big Chill," and numerous television movies and series.
- 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: Shelley Duvall Target entity description: Shelley Duvall is an American actress and producer best known for her distinctive, often eccentric screen presence in films by directors like Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick, as well as for hosting the children's anthology series "Faerie Tale Theatre."
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A.
Diane Ladd
Diane Ladd is an American actress, director, and producer known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including her Academy Award–nominated performances and frequent collaborations with her daughter, Laura Dern.
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B.
Dee Wallace
Dee Wallace is an American actress best known for her role as the mother in the classic science-fiction film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
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C.
Nancy Olson
Nancy Olson is an American actress best known for her Academy Award–nominated role in the classic film "Sunset Boulevard."
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D.
Patty Fenn
Patty Fenn is a television producer and key character in the film "Money Monster," where she manages the chaotic live broadcast at the center of the story.
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E.
JoBeth Williams
JoBeth Williams is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Poltergeist," "The Big Chill," and numerous television movies and series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Shelley Duvall Description of subject: Shelley Duvall is an American actress and producer best known for her distinctive, often eccentric screen presence in films by directors like Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick, as well as for hosting the children's anthology series "Faerie Tale Theatre."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"Here’s Johnny!" scene