Josephine Hull
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Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles, including her Oscar-winning performance in "Harvey."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Josephine Hull canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1928459 — 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: Josephine Hull Context triple: [Arsenic and Old Lace (film), starring, Josephine Hull]
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A.
Julia Floyd
Julia Floyd was the wife of British statesman Sir Robert Peel, serving as a prominent Victorian-era political hostess and member of the English gentry.
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B.
Julia Hoyt
Julia Hoyt was an American stage and silent film actress and socialite active in the early 20th century.
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C.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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E.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
- 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: Josephine Hull Target entity description: Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles, including her Oscar-winning performance in "Harvey."
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A.
Julia Floyd
Julia Floyd was the wife of British statesman Sir Robert Peel, serving as a prominent Victorian-era political hostess and member of the English gentry.
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B.
Julia Hoyt
Julia Hoyt was an American stage and silent film actress and socialite active in the early 20th century.
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C.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress and comedian best known for her recurring role as The Waitress on the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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E.
Mary Ann Holmes
Mary Ann Holmes was the mother of renowned 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth and the wife of Shakespearean tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Josephine Hull Description of subject: Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress best known for her comedic character roles, including her Oscar-winning performance in "Harvey."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.