Paula Alquist
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Paula Alquist is the psychologically tormented heroine of the 1944 film "Gaslight," whose manipulation by her husband gave rise to the term "gaslighting."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paula Alquist canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3926354 — 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: Paula Alquist Context triple: [Gaslight (1944 film), leadCharacter, Paula Alquist]
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A.
Marsha Garces
Marsha Garces is an American film producer and philanthropist best known for her work on projects like "Mrs. Doubtfire" and for her long marriage to actor and comedian Robin Williams.
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B.
Marjorie Estiano
Marjorie Estiano is a Brazilian actress and singer acclaimed for her powerful television performances and international recognition.
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C.
Dolores Erickson
Dolores Erickson is an American model and actress best known as the cover girl on Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’s iconic 1965 album "Whipped Cream & Other Delights."
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D.
Norma Kaphan
Norma Kaphan was the first wife of American journalist and television personality Mike Wallace.
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E.
Edie Martin
Edie Martin was a British character actress known for her frequent appearances as elderly women in mid-20th-century British films and comedies.
- 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: Paula Alquist Target entity description: Paula Alquist is the psychologically tormented heroine of the 1944 film "Gaslight," whose manipulation by her husband gave rise to the term "gaslighting."
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A.
Marsha Garces
Marsha Garces is an American film producer and philanthropist best known for her work on projects like "Mrs. Doubtfire" and for her long marriage to actor and comedian Robin Williams.
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B.
Marjorie Estiano
Marjorie Estiano is a Brazilian actress and singer acclaimed for her powerful television performances and international recognition.
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C.
Dolores Erickson
Dolores Erickson is an American model and actress best known as the cover girl on Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’s iconic 1965 album "Whipped Cream & Other Delights."
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D.
Norma Kaphan
Norma Kaphan was the first wife of American journalist and television personality Mike Wallace.
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E.
Edie Martin
Edie Martin was a British character actress known for her frequent appearances as elderly women in mid-20th-century British films and comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Paula Alquist Description of subject: Paula Alquist is the psychologically tormented heroine of the 1944 film "Gaslight," whose manipulation by her husband gave rise to the term "gaslighting."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gaslight (1944 film)