Dominique Dunne
E349959
Dominique Dunne was an American actress best known for her role as the eldest daughter in the 1982 horror film "Poltergeist," whose promising career was tragically cut short by her murder at age 22.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dominique Dunne canonical | 3 |
| Dominique Ellen Dunne | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342305 — 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: Dominique Dunne Context triple: [Poltergeist, starring, Dominique Dunne]
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A.
Georgeann Skakel Dowdle
Georgeann Skakel Dowdle was a member of the prominent Skakel family of Greenwich, Connecticut, known as one of the sisters of Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
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B.
Patricia Skakel
Patricia Skakel is a member of the Skakel family, known primarily as the sister of Ethel Kennedy and thus part of the extended Kennedy family circle.
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C.
Kathleen Quinlan
Kathleen Quinlan is an American film and television actress best known for her Academy Award–nominated performance as Marilyn Lovell in the 1995 space drama "Apollo 13."
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D.
Gina Linetti
Gina Linetti is a hilariously self-absorbed, sharp-tongued civilian administrator known for her bizarre confidence and deadpan humor on the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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E.
Dylan Farrow
Dylan Farrow is an American writer and the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, known publicly for her allegations of childhood sexual abuse against Allen.
- 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: Dominique Dunne Target entity description: Dominique Dunne was an American actress best known for her role as the eldest daughter in the 1982 horror film "Poltergeist," whose promising career was tragically cut short by her murder at age 22.
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A.
Georgeann Skakel Dowdle
Georgeann Skakel Dowdle was a member of the prominent Skakel family of Greenwich, Connecticut, known as one of the sisters of Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
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B.
Patricia Skakel
Patricia Skakel is a member of the Skakel family, known primarily as the sister of Ethel Kennedy and thus part of the extended Kennedy family circle.
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C.
Kathleen Quinlan
Kathleen Quinlan is an American film and television actress best known for her Academy Award–nominated performance as Marilyn Lovell in the 1995 space drama "Apollo 13."
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D.
Gina Linetti
Gina Linetti is a hilariously self-absorbed, sharp-tongued civilian administrator known for her bizarre confidence and deadpan humor on the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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E.
Dylan Farrow
Dylan Farrow is an American writer and the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, known publicly for her allegations of childhood sexual abuse against Allen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Dominique Dunne Description of subject: Dominique Dunne was an American actress best known for her role as the eldest daughter in the 1982 horror film "Poltergeist," whose promising career was tragically cut short by her murder at age 22.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dominique Ellen Dunne