Jean Shirley Verhagen
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Jean Shirley Verhagen, better known by her stage name Jean Hagen, was an American film, television, and stage actress best remembered for her Oscar-nominated role as Lina Lamont in the classic musical "Singin' in the Rain."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jean Shirley Verhagen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3216509 — 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: Jean Shirley Verhagen Context triple: [Jean Hagen, birthName, Jean Shirley Verhagen]
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A.
Anne Drinkard Moss
Anne Drinkard Moss is a gospel singer best known as a member of the pioneering family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape modern gospel music.
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B.
Lee Smith
Lee Smith is an acclaimed Australian film editor known for his work on major films such as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk.
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C.
Ethel Pyle
Ethel Pyle is the daughter of American heiress and socialite Ethel du Pont.
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D.
Mariann Edgar Budde
Mariann Edgar Budde is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Susan Hunt
Susan Hunt is a British model and socialite best known for her high-profile marriages to Formula One driver James Hunt and later actor Richard Burton.
- 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: Jean Shirley Verhagen Target entity description: Jean Shirley Verhagen, better known by her stage name Jean Hagen, was an American film, television, and stage actress best remembered for her Oscar-nominated role as Lina Lamont in the classic musical "Singin' in the Rain."
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A.
Anne Drinkard Moss
Anne Drinkard Moss is a gospel singer best known as a member of the pioneering family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape modern gospel music.
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B.
Lee Smith
Lee Smith is an acclaimed Australian film editor known for his work on major films such as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk.
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C.
Ethel Pyle
Ethel Pyle is the daughter of American heiress and socialite Ethel du Pont.
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D.
Mariann Edgar Budde
Mariann Edgar Budde is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Susan Hunt
Susan Hunt is a British model and socialite best known for her high-profile marriages to Formula One driver James Hunt and later actor Richard Burton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Jean Shirley Verhagen ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ⓘ |
| birthName | Jean Shirley Verhagen self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| coStarredWith |
Debbie Reynolds
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Donald O'Connor ⓘ Gene Kelly ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Verhagen ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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musical film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
motion pictures
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stage productions ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| name | Jean Hagen ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Singin' in the Rain ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of a comically untalented silent-film star in Singin' in the Rain ⓘ |
| notableRole | Lina Lamont ⓘ |
| notableWork | Singin' in the Rain ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film actress ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Singin' in the Rain ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| stageName | Jean Hagen ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
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: Jean Shirley Verhagen Description of subject: Jean Shirley Verhagen, better known by her stage name Jean Hagen, was an American film, television, and stage actress best remembered for her Oscar-nominated role as Lina Lamont in the classic musical "Singin' in the Rain."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jean Hagen
subject surface form:
Jean Hagen