Lila Crane
E421282
Lila Crane is a key character in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film "Psycho," known for investigating her sister’s disappearance and uncovering the truth behind Norman Bates and the Bates Motel.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lila Crane canonical | 5 |
| Lila Crane (in novel continuity) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4207031 — 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: Lila Crane Context triple: [Psycho, mainCharacter, Lila Crane]
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A.
Hilda Fenemore
Hilda Fenemore was a British character actress known for her numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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B.
Lina Lamont
Lina Lamont is a comically vain, shrill-voiced silent film star whose struggle to adapt to talking pictures drives much of the humor and conflict in the classic musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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C.
Norma Crane
Norma Crane was an American actress best known for her role as Golde, Tevye’s wife, in the film adaptation of the musical "Fiddler on the Roof."
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D.
Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance was an American actress and comedian best known for playing Ethel Mertz, Lucy Ricardo’s neighbor and sidekick, on the classic television sitcom I Love Lucy.
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E.
Eudoria Holmes
Eudoria Holmes is the fiercely independent and unconventional mother of Enola Holmes in the "Enola Holmes" mystery series, known for her secretive activism and radical beliefs.
- 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: Lila Crane Target entity description: Lila Crane is a key character in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film "Psycho," known for investigating her sister’s disappearance and uncovering the truth behind Norman Bates and the Bates Motel.
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A.
Hilda Fenemore
Hilda Fenemore was a British character actress known for her numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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B.
Lina Lamont
Lina Lamont is a comically vain, shrill-voiced silent film star whose struggle to adapt to talking pictures drives much of the humor and conflict in the classic musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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C.
Norma Crane
Norma Crane was an American actress best known for her role as Golde, Tevye’s wife, in the film adaptation of the musical "Fiddler on the Roof."
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D.
Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance was an American actress and comedian best known for playing Ethel Mertz, Lucy Ricardo’s neighbor and sidekick, on the classic television sitcom I Love Lucy.
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E.
Eudoria Holmes
Eudoria Holmes is the fiercely independent and unconventional mother of Enola Holmes in the "Enola Holmes" mystery series, known for her secretive activism and radical beliefs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Psycho
ⓘ
Psycho II ⓘ Psycho III ⓘ |
| appearsInDirectorWork |
Psycho
ⓘ
surface form:
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
|
| appearsInFranchise |
Psycho
ⓘ
surface form:
Psycho franchise
|
| appearsInGenre |
horror
ⓘ
psychological thriller ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
film
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bates Motel
ⓘ
Fairvale ⓘ Norman Bates ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Psycho (1959 novel)
ⓘ
surface form:
Psycho (novel)
|
| characterArc | transitions from worried sister to determined investigator ⓘ |
| confronts | Norman Bates ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInFiction |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Robert Bloch ⓘ |
| discovers | Norma Bates’s preserved corpse ⓘ |
| familyName | Crane ⓘ |
| filmDebutActorForCharacter | Vera Miles in Psycho (1960) ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Lila ⓘ |
| hasAlly | Sam Loomis ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Marion Crane ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
investigator
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor |
discovering the secret of the Bates Motel
ⓘ
investigating her sister Marion Crane’s disappearance ⓘ uncovering the truth about Norman Bates ⓘ |
| occupation | secretary ⓘ |
| partOf |
Psycho
ⓘ
surface form:
Psycho (1960 film) cast
|
| portrayedBy | Vera Miles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relativeOf | Sam Loomis ⓘ |
| settingOfKeyEvents |
Bates Motel
ⓘ
Bates family mansion ⓘ
surface form:
Bates house
|
| siblingOf | Marion Crane ⓘ |
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: Lila Crane Description of subject: Lila Crane is a key character in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film "Psycho," known for investigating her sister’s disappearance and uncovering the truth behind Norman Bates and the Bates Motel.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lila Crane (in novel continuity)
subject surface form:
Fairvale, California