Beverly D’Angelo
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Beverly D’Angelo is an American actress best known for her role as Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon’s Vacation film series.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beverly D’Angelo canonical | 10 |
| Beverly D'Angelo | 5 |
| Beverly D'Angelo (cameo) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1987426 — 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: Beverly D’Angelo Context triple: [Vacation (2015 film), stars, Beverly D’Angelo]
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A.
Victoria Scott D’Angelo
Victoria Scott D’Angelo is an American former actress and socialite best known as the second wife of legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager.
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B.
Annie D'Angelo
Annie D'Angelo is an American makeup artist best known as the longtime wife of country music legend Willie Nelson.
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C.
Andrea Klein
Andrea Klein is a graphic designer best known for creating the cover art for Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album "Born in the U.S.A."
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D.
Angela Martin
Angela Martin is a tightly wound, judgmental, and cat-obsessed accountant on the U.S. version of *The Office*, known for her strict moralism and tumultuous office romances.
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E.
Melissa Mathison
Melissa Mathison was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
- 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: Beverly D’Angelo Target entity description: Beverly D’Angelo is an American actress best known for her role as Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon’s Vacation film series.
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A.
Victoria Scott D’Angelo
Victoria Scott D’Angelo is an American former actress and socialite best known as the second wife of legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager.
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B.
Annie D'Angelo
Annie D'Angelo is an American makeup artist best known as the longtime wife of country music legend Willie Nelson.
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C.
Andrea Klein
Andrea Klein is a graphic designer best known for creating the cover art for Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album "Born in the U.S.A."
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D.
Angela Martin
Angela Martin is a tightly wound, judgmental, and cat-obsessed accountant on the U.S. version of *The Office*, known for her strict moralism and tumultuous office romances.
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E.
Melissa Mathison
Melissa Mathison was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ singer ⓘ television actress ⓘ voice actress ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
American History X
ⓘ
Annie Hall ⓘ Coal Miner's Daughter ⓘ
surface form:
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Entourage ⓘ
surface form:
Entourage (TV series)
Hair (1979 film) ⓘ Mom (TV series) ⓘ |
| child |
Al Pacino
ⓘ
surface form:
Anton Pacino
Olivia Pacino ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-11-15 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Italian-American ⓘ |
| familyName | D’Angelo ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
music ⓘ television ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Beverly ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
comedy films
ⓘ
drama films ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon’s Vacation film series ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1995 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1981 ⓘ |
| name | Beverly D’Angelo self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAwardNomination |
Emmy Award nomination for A Streetcar Named Desire (1984 TV film)
ⓘ
Golden Globe Award nomination for Coal Miner’s Daughter ⓘ |
| notableRole | Ellen Griswold ⓘ |
| notableWork |
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
ⓘ
National Lampoon’s European Vacation ⓘ National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983 film) ⓘ
surface form:
National Lampoon’s Vacation
Vacation (2015 film) ⓘ Vegas Vacation ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| partner | Al Pacino ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Columbus, Ohio
ⓘ
surface form:
Columbus, Ohio, United States
|
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| role | Patsy Cline ⓘ |
| spouse | Don Lorenzo Salviati ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: Beverly D’Angelo Description of subject: Beverly D’Angelo is an American actress best known for her role as Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon’s Vacation film series.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Beverly D'Angelo
this entity surface form:
Beverly D'Angelo
subject surface form:
National Lampoon’s Vacation
this entity surface form:
Beverly D'Angelo
this entity surface form:
Beverly D'Angelo (cameo)
subject surface form:
Hair (1979 film)
this entity surface form:
Beverly D'Angelo
this entity surface form:
Beverly D'Angelo