Beatrice Straight
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Beatrice Straight was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Network" and her role in the horror film "Poltergeist."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Beatrice Straight canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342304 — 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: Beatrice Straight Context triple: [Poltergeist, starring, Beatrice Straight]
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A.
Beatrice Durham
Beatrice Durham was the wife of pioneering British geneticist William Bateson and a supportive figure in his personal and scientific life.
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B.
Persis Lapham
Persis Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," depicted as the morally grounded wife who provides emotional and ethical balance to her ambitious husband.
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C.
Clara Bingham
Clara Bingham is an American journalist, author, and documentary producer known for her investigative work on gender, power, and workplace harassment.
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D.
Minerva Anderson
Minerva Anderson was the mother of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
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E.
Justine Cushing
Justine Cushing is known as the wife of Alexander Cushing, the founder of the Squaw Valley (now Palisades Tahoe) ski resort and a key figure in American skiing history.
- 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: Beatrice Straight Target entity description: Beatrice Straight was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Network" and her role in the horror film "Poltergeist."
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A.
Beatrice Durham
Beatrice Durham was the wife of pioneering British geneticist William Bateson and a supportive figure in his personal and scientific life.
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B.
Persis Lapham
Persis Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," depicted as the morally grounded wife who provides emotional and ethical balance to her ambitious husband.
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C.
Clara Bingham
Clara Bingham is an American journalist, author, and documentary producer known for her investigative work on gender, power, and workplace harassment.
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D.
Minerva Anderson
Minerva Anderson was the mother of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
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E.
Justine Cushing
Justine Cushing is known as the wife of Alexander Cushing, the founder of the Squaw Valley (now Palisades Tahoe) ski resort and a key figure in American skiing history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Beatrice Straight Description of subject: Beatrice Straight was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Network" and her role in the horror film "Poltergeist."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.