Jane Murfin
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American film director
American playwright
American screenwriter
film director
human
playwright
screenwriter
Jane Murfin was an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director active in early Hollywood, known for co-writing successful stage plays and films during the 1920s and 1930s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jane Murfin canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3189525 — 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: Jane Murfin Context triple: [Donald Crisp, spouse, Jane Murfin]
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A.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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B.
Rebecca Rolfe
Rebecca Rolfe is the English name taken by Pocahontas, the Native American woman known for her association with the Jamestown colony and her marriage to John Rolfe.
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C.
Mary Meredith
Mary Meredith is a fictional character from the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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D.
Elizabeth Eldridge
Elizabeth Eldridge was the wife of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, associated with the period of the Salem witch trials in late 17th-century Massachusetts.
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E.
Elizabeth Stevens
Elizabeth Stevens is known as the daughter of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
- 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: Jane Murfin Target entity description: Jane Murfin was an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director active in early Hollywood, known for co-writing successful stage plays and films during the 1920s and 1930s.
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A.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
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B.
Rebecca Rolfe
Rebecca Rolfe is the English name taken by Pocahontas, the Native American woman known for her association with the Jamestown colony and her marriage to John Rolfe.
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C.
Mary Meredith
Mary Meredith is a fictional character from the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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D.
Elizabeth Eldridge
Elizabeth Eldridge was the wife of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, associated with the period of the Salem witch trials in late 17th-century Massachusetts.
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E.
Elizabeth Stevens
Elizabeth Stevens is known as the daughter of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film director
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American playwright ⓘ American screenwriter ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1920s
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1930s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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film direction ⓘ playwriting ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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romantic drama ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood
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surface form:
Hollywood film industry
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
co-wrote several commercially successful Broadway plays
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contributed to multiple successful Hollywood films in the 1920s and 1930s ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-writing successful stage plays in early 20th century
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directing films in early Hollywood ⓘ screenwriting in early Hollywood ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blossom Time
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surface form:
Lilac Time
Lilac Time (1928 film) ⓘ Lilac Time (play) ⓘ Our Betters ⓘ Smilin' Through ⓘ
surface form:
Smilin’ Through
Smilin’ Through (play) ⓘ
surface form:
Smilin’ Through (1922 film adaptation)
Smilin’ Through (1932) ⓘ
surface form:
Smilin’ Through (1932 film adaptation)
Smilin’ Through (play) ⓘ
surface form:
Smilin’ Through (1941 film adaptation)
Smilin’ Through (play) ⓘ The Divorcee ⓘ The Women ⓘ What Price Hollywood? (1932 film) ⓘ
surface form:
What Price Hollywood?
What Price Hollywood? (1932 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Jane Murfin Description of subject: Jane Murfin was an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director active in early Hollywood, known for co-writing successful stage plays and films during the 1920s and 1930s.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Women (1939 film)