Bess Flowers
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Bess Flowers was a prolific American character actress best known as the "Queen of the Hollywood Extras" for her hundreds of uncredited appearances in classic films from the 1920s through the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bess Flowers canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5349415 — 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: Bess Flowers Context triple: [The Bottom of the Bottle, castMember, Bess Flowers]
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A.
Belle Williams
Belle Williams is the ambitious and fearless New York City cab driver portrayed by Queen Latifah in the 2004 action-comedy film "Taxi."
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B.
Bessie Gardner
Bessie Gardner was the wife of American industrialist and philanthropist Alfred I. du Pont.
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C.
Bess Armstrong
Bess Armstrong is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in projects like the drama series "My So-Called Life."
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D.
Spring Byington
Spring Byington was an American character actress best known for her warm, maternal roles in classic Hollywood films and early television, including the sitcom "December Bride."
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E.
Betsy Blair
Betsy Blair was an American actress best known for her acclaimed, Oscar-nominated performance in the 1955 film "Marty" and for her work in both Hollywood and European cinema.
- 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: Bess Flowers Target entity description: Bess Flowers was a prolific American character actress best known as the "Queen of the Hollywood Extras" for her hundreds of uncredited appearances in classic films from the 1920s through the 1960s.
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A.
Belle Williams
Belle Williams is the ambitious and fearless New York City cab driver portrayed by Queen Latifah in the 2004 action-comedy film "Taxi."
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B.
Bessie Gardner
Bessie Gardner was the wife of American industrialist and philanthropist Alfred I. du Pont.
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C.
Bess Armstrong
Bess Armstrong is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in projects like the drama series "My So-Called Life."
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D.
Spring Byington
Spring Byington was an American character actress best known for her warm, maternal roles in classic Hollywood films and early television, including the sitcom "December Bride."
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E.
Betsy Blair
Betsy Blair was an American actress best known for her acclaimed, Oscar-nominated performance in the 1955 film "Marty" and for her work in both Hollywood and European cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
character actress ⓘ extra ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
Golden Age of Hollywood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
silent film era ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Adam’s Rib
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
All About Eve NERFINISHED ⓘ An American in Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ Double Indemnity NERFINISHED ⓘ Gone with the Wind NERFINISHED ⓘ It Happened One Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Mildred Pierce NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ North by Northwest NERFINISHED ⓘ Rear Window NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Holiday NERFINISHED ⓘ Singin' in the Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunset Boulevard NERFINISHED ⓘ The Apartment NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Sleep NERFINISHED ⓘ The Maltese Falcon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Music Man (1962 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Philadelphia Story NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thin Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Vertigo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Bess Flowers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1898-11-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1984-07-28 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| knownFor | being one of the most frequently seen background performers in film history ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Bess Flowers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Queen of the Hollywood Extras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
appearing as an extra in hundreds of Hollywood films
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frequent uncredited roles in classic American cinema ⓘ |
| numberOfFilmAppearances | over 700 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film extra ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sherman, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1923–1964 ⓘ |
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: Bess Flowers Description of subject: Bess Flowers was a prolific American character actress best known as the "Queen of the Hollywood Extras" for her hundreds of uncredited appearances in classic films from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.