Paulette Goddard
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Paulette Goddard was an American film actress and former Ziegfeld girl best known for her roles in several 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including multiple collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paulette Goddard canonical | 30 |
| Ellen Miller – Paulette Goddard | 1 |
| Paulette Goddard (divorced) | 1 |
| Paulette Goddard Levy | 1 |
| Paulette Goddard as The Gamin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216332 — 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: Paulette Goddard Context triple: [Charlie Chaplin, spouse, Paulette Goddard]
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A.
Katherine Puening
Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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B.
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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C.
Lela Rochon
Lela Rochon is an American actress best known for her breakout role in the 1995 film "Waiting to Exhale" and her work in numerous film and television projects throughout the 1990s.
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D.
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt was an American actress best known for her roles in the film "Gentleman's Agreement" and the television series "Father Knows Best."
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E.
Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds was an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her roles in classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain."
- 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: Paulette Goddard Target entity description: Paulette Goddard was an American film actress and former Ziegfeld girl best known for her roles in several 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including multiple collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
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A.
Katherine Puening
Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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B.
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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C.
Lela Rochon
Lela Rochon is an American actress best known for her breakout role in the 1995 film "Waiting to Exhale" and her work in numerous film and television projects throughout the 1990s.
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D.
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt was an American actress best known for her roles in the film "Gentleman's Agreement" and the television series "Father Knows Best."
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E.
Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds was an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her roles in classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain."
- 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: Paulette Goddard Description of subject: Paulette Goddard was an American film actress and former Ziegfeld girl best known for her roles in several 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including multiple collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Paulette Goddard as The Gamin
this entity surface form:
Ellen Miller – Paulette Goddard
this entity surface form:
Paulette Goddard (divorced)
subject surface form:
The Women (1939 film)
subject surface form:
Cimitero di Ronco sopra Ascona
subject surface form:
Paulette Goddard
this entity surface form:
Paulette Goddard Levy
subject surface form:
Hank Taylor