Edna Babish
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Edna Babish is a recurring character on the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," known as the girls’ landlady who later marries Laverne’s father, Frank DeFazio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edna Babish canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3819487 — 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: Edna Babish Context triple: [Laverne & Shirley, supportingCharacter, Edna Babish]
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A.
Edith Haldeman
Edith Haldeman was an American silent film actress best known for her role in D.W. Griffith’s 1920 melodrama "Way Down East."
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B.
Lucille Bremer
Lucille Bremer was an American film actress and dancer best known for her 1940s MGM musicals, particularly her collaborations with Fred Astaire.
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C.
Edna Hibel
Edna Hibel was an American painter and lithographer renowned for her romantic, impressionistic depictions of women, children, and family life, and for her extensive international exhibitions and humanitarian work.
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D.
Mildred Schroeder
Mildred Schroeder was the wife of American actor and comedian Bert Lahr, best known for his role as the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Fannie Cohn
Fannie Cohn was a prominent labor organizer and leader in the American garment industry, known for her influential role in advancing workers’ rights through the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
- 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: Edna Babish Target entity description: Edna Babish is a recurring character on the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," known as the girls’ landlady who later marries Laverne’s father, Frank DeFazio.
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A.
Edith Haldeman
Edith Haldeman was an American silent film actress best known for her role in D.W. Griffith’s 1920 melodrama "Way Down East."
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B.
Lucille Bremer
Lucille Bremer was an American film actress and dancer best known for her 1940s MGM musicals, particularly her collaborations with Fred Astaire.
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C.
Edna Hibel
Edna Hibel was an American painter and lithographer renowned for her romantic, impressionistic depictions of women, children, and family life, and for her extensive international exhibitions and humanitarian work.
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D.
Mildred Schroeder
Mildred Schroeder was the wife of American actor and comedian Bert Lahr, best known for his role as the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Fannie Cohn
Fannie Cohn was a prominent labor organizer and leader in the American garment industry, known for her influential role in advancing workers’ rights through the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Laverne & Shirley ⓘ |
| basedIn | Milwaukee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstAppearanceInSeries | Laverne & Shirley ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom character ⓘ |
| householdRole | building manager ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| laterBasedIn |
Burbank, California
ⓘ
surface form:
Burbank
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| medium | television ⓘ |
| occupation | landlady ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| partOf |
Laverne & Shirley
ⓘ
surface form:
Laverne & Shirley universe
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| portrayedBy | Betty Garrett ⓘ |
| relationshipToFrankDeFazio | wife ⓘ |
| relationshipToLaverneDeFazio | stepmother ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Laverne DeFazio ⓘ |
| roleInStory | Laverne and Shirley's landlady ⓘ |
| spouse | Frank DeFazio ⓘ |
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: Edna Babish Description of subject: Edna Babish is a recurring character on the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," known as the girls’ landlady who later marries Laverne’s father, Frank DeFazio.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.