Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie
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Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie is the iconic lead performance in the 1940 film noir drama "The Letter," in which Davis plays a seemingly refined colonial wife whose involvement in a murder exposes deep moral ambiguity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5514975 — 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: Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie Context triple: [The Letter (1940 film), portraysCharacter, Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie]
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Angela Lansbury as Eleanor Iselin
Angela Lansbury as Eleanor Iselin is the chilling, manipulative mother and political power broker in the 1962 thriller "The Manchurian Candidate," widely regarded as one of Lansbury’s most iconic and sinister film roles.
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Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer
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Barbara Stanwyck as Kathy Ferguson
Barbara Stanwyck as Kathy Ferguson is the sharp, ambitious advice columnist whose life and career are upended by marriage and obsession in the 1957 film noir "Crime of Passion."
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Patricia Neal as Olivia Walton
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- 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: Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie Target entity description: Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie is the iconic lead performance in the 1940 film noir drama "The Letter," in which Davis plays a seemingly refined colonial wife whose involvement in a murder exposes deep moral ambiguity.
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A.
Angela Lansbury as Eleanor Iselin
Angela Lansbury as Eleanor Iselin is the chilling, manipulative mother and political power broker in the 1962 thriller "The Manchurian Candidate," widely regarded as one of Lansbury’s most iconic and sinister film roles.
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B.
Eve Harrington in All About Eve
Eve Harrington in *All About Eve* is the ambitious, seemingly innocent young fan who cunningly schemes her way into stardom at the expense of aging Broadway star Margo Channing.
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C.
Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer
Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer is the prim, resilient missionary heroine portrayed by Hepburn in the classic 1951 adventure film "The African Queen."
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D.
Barbara Stanwyck as Kathy Ferguson
Barbara Stanwyck as Kathy Ferguson is the sharp, ambitious advice columnist whose life and career are upended by marriage and obsession in the 1957 film noir "Crime of Passion."
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E.
Patricia Neal as Olivia Walton
Patricia Neal as Olivia Walton is the acclaimed actress’s portrayal of the strong, nurturing Walton family matriarch in the 1971 television film "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story," which served as the pilot for the series "The Waltons."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character portrayal
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film role ⓘ |
| academyAwardsContext | The Letter (1940) received multiple Academy Award nominations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| antagonistInStory | Mrs. Hammond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| antagonistPortrayedBy | Gale Sondergaard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | The Letter (1940 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenreCycle | classic Hollywood film noir ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Letter (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | W. Somerset Maugham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhiteFilm | true ⓘ |
| characterName | Leslie Crosbie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterOccupationOrStatus | colonial wife ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
emotionally complex
ⓘ
morally ambiguous ⓘ outwardly refined ⓘ |
| countryOfFilmProduction | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmCinematographyBy | Tony Gaudio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirector | William Wyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDistributor | Warner Bros. Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenre |
drama film
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film noir ⓘ |
| filmMusicBy | Max Steiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| filmScreenwriter | Howard E. Koch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmStudio | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvedIn | murder of Geoff Hammond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyProp | incriminating letter ⓘ |
| languageOfFilm | English ⓘ |
| lawyerInStory | Howard Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lawyerPortrayedBy | James Stephenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
colonialism
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crime and guilt ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| performanceReputation |
iconic Bette Davis performance
ⓘ
one of Bette Davis’s notable 1940s roles ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bette Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingRegion | British Malaya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseInStory | Robert Crosbie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spousePortrayedBy | Herbert Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie Description of subject: Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie is the iconic lead performance in the 1940 film noir drama "The Letter," in which Davis plays a seemingly refined colonial wife whose involvement in a murder exposes deep moral ambiguity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Letter (1940 film)