Dorothy Jordan
E234301
Dorothy Jordan was an American silent film actress best known for her work in early Hollywood cinema during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorothy Jordan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1262738 — 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 Jordan Context triple: [Merian C. Cooper, spouse, Dorothy Jordan]
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A.
Dorothy Good
Dorothy Good was a young child accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Dorothy Revier
Dorothy Revier was an American silent and early sound film actress known for her roles in adventure and drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.
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D.
Dorothy May
Dorothy May was the first wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford, remembered for her tragic death by drowning shortly after arriving in America in 1620.
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E.
Dorothy Comingore
Dorothy Comingore was an American film actress best known for her acclaimed performance as Susan Alexander Kane in Orson Welles's classic film "Citizen Kane."
- 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 Jordan Target entity description: Dorothy Jordan was an American silent film actress best known for her work in early Hollywood cinema during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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A.
Dorothy Good
Dorothy Good was a young child accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Dorothy Revier
Dorothy Revier was an American silent and early sound film actress known for her roles in adventure and drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.
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D.
Dorothy May
Dorothy May was the first wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford, remembered for her tragic death by drowning shortly after arriving in America in 1620.
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E.
Dorothy Comingore
Dorothy Comingore was an American film actress best known for her acclaimed performance as Susan Alexander Kane in Orson Welles's classic film "Citizen Kane."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actress ⓘ |
| activeIn | American silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
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surface form:
Classical Hollywood era
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| fieldOfWork |
Hollywood
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surface form:
Hollywood film industry
cinema ⓘ |
| genre | silent film ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | silent films ⓘ |
| notability | best known for work in early Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| notableWorkPeriod |
early 1930s
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late 1920s ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actress ⓘ |
| partOf | early Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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 Jordan Description of subject: Dorothy Jordan was an American silent film actress best known for her work in early Hollywood cinema during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.