Josephine Crombie
E528384
Josephine Crombie was the first wife of English actor Donald Pleasence, with whom she had two daughters before their divorce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Josephine Crombie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5509846 — 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: Josephine Crombie Context triple: [Donald Pleasence, spouse, Josephine Crombie]
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A.
Rosemary Squire
Rosemary Squire is a prominent British theatre entrepreneur and producer, best known as the co-founder and former joint chief executive of the Ambassador Theatre Group, one of the world’s largest live theatre companies.
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B.
Madeleine Carroll
Madeleine Carroll was a British actress best known for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "The 39 Steps" (1935), which made her one of the first major British female stars in Hollywood.
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C.
Philippa Cobb
Philippa Cobb is the young daughter of Dom Cobb in the film "Inception."
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D.
Frances Jennings
Frances Jennings was a 17th-century English court beauty and later Irish noblewoman, noted for her marriages into prominent Jacobite circles and her eventual life of religious seclusion.
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E.
Elizabeth Platt
Elizabeth Platt was the wife of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
- 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: Josephine Crombie Target entity description: Josephine Crombie was the first wife of English actor Donald Pleasence, with whom she had two daughters before their divorce.
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A.
Rosemary Squire
Rosemary Squire is a prominent British theatre entrepreneur and producer, best known as the co-founder and former joint chief executive of the Ambassador Theatre Group, one of the world’s largest live theatre companies.
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B.
Madeleine Carroll
Madeleine Carroll was a British actress best known for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller "The 39 Steps" (1935), which made her one of the first major British female stars in Hollywood.
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C.
Philippa Cobb
Philippa Cobb is the young daughter of Dom Cobb in the film "Inception."
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D.
Frances Jennings
Frances Jennings was a 17th-century English court beauty and later Irish noblewoman, noted for her marriages into prominent Jacobite circles and her eventual life of religious seclusion.
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E.
Elizabeth Platt
Elizabeth Platt was the wife of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Donald Pleasence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOfNationality | English ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation | actor ⓘ |
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: Josephine Crombie Description of subject: Josephine Crombie was the first wife of English actor Donald Pleasence, with whom she had two daughters before their divorce.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.