Esther Smith
E235584
Esther Smith is the central teenage daughter in the classic 1944 MGM musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis," famously portrayed by Judy Garland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Esther Smith canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1011595 — 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: Esther Smith Context triple: [The Trolley Song, hasPerformerCharacterInFilm, Esther Smith]
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A.
Esther Ross
Esther Ross was the woman who served as the sponsor and ceremonial namesake figure for the U.S. Navy battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) at its christening.
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B.
Esther Drummond
Esther Drummond is a CIA analyst who becomes a key member of the Torchwood team in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
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C.
Esther Bubley
Esther Bubley was an American documentary photographer best known for her intimate, human-centered images of everyday life in mid-20th-century America, particularly during and after World War II.
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D.
Ethel Gross
Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
- 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: Esther Smith Target entity description: Esther Smith is the central teenage daughter in the classic 1944 MGM musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis," famously portrayed by Judy Garland.
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A.
Esther Ross
Esther Ross was the woman who served as the sponsor and ceremonial namesake figure for the U.S. Navy battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) at its christening.
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B.
Esther Drummond
Esther Drummond is a CIA analyst who becomes a key member of the Torchwood team in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
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C.
Esther Bubley
Esther Bubley was an American documentary photographer best known for her intimate, human-centered images of everyday life in mid-20th-century America, particularly during and after World War II.
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D.
Ethel Gross
Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Esther Smith Description of subject: Esther Smith is the central teenage daughter in the classic 1944 MGM musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis," famously portrayed by Judy Garland.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Smith family (Meet Me in St. Louis)