Edith Evanson
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Edith Evanson was an American character actress known for her supporting roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including several Alfred Hitchcock movies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edith Evanson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5514685 — 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: Edith Evanson Context triple: [Rope, castMember, Edith Evanson]
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A.
Edith Evans
Edith Evans was a distinguished English stage and film actress renowned for her commanding presence and acclaimed portrayals of classic roles in works by Shakespeare, Wilde, and Shaw.
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B.
Edith Evans
Edith Evans is a fictional character in the film "We Don't Live Here Anymore," central to the story’s exploration of marital strain and emotional infidelity.
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C.
Edith Luckett
Edith Luckett was an American stage actress best known as the mother of Nancy Reagan, the future First Lady of the United States.
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D.
Edith Millbank
Edith Millbank is a central fictional character in Benjamin Disraeli’s political novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," representing the heroine and romantic interest of the protagonist.
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E.
Enid Bennett
Enid Bennett was an Australian-born silent film actress who became a popular leading lady in early Hollywood 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: Edith Evanson Target entity description: Edith Evanson was an American character actress known for her supporting roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including several Alfred Hitchcock movies.
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A.
Edith Evans
Edith Evans was a distinguished English stage and film actress renowned for her commanding presence and acclaimed portrayals of classic roles in works by Shakespeare, Wilde, and Shaw.
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B.
Edith Evans
Edith Evans is a fictional character in the film "We Don't Live Here Anymore," central to the story’s exploration of marital strain and emotional infidelity.
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C.
Edith Luckett
Edith Luckett was an American stage actress best known as the mother of Nancy Reagan, the future First Lady of the United States.
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D.
Edith Millbank
Edith Millbank is a central fictional character in Benjamin Disraeli’s political novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," representing the heroine and romantic interest of the protagonist.
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E.
Enid Bennett
Enid Bennett was an Australian-born silent film actress who became a popular leading lady in early Hollywood cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood film industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1896-04-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1980-11-29 ⓘ |
| employer | Hollywood studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Evanson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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science fiction film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | Edith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Edith Evanson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | supporting roles in mid-20th-century American films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Rope
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shadow of a Doubt NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bad and the Beautiful NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Trees NERFINISHED ⓘ The Day the Earth Stood Still NERFINISHED ⓘ The Farmer's Daughter NERFINISHED ⓘ The Snake Pit NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wrong Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
character actress ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Rope
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shadow of a Doubt NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bad and the Beautiful NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Trees NERFINISHED ⓘ The Day the Earth Stood Still NERFINISHED ⓘ The Farmer's Daughter NERFINISHED ⓘ The Snake Pit NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wrong Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tacoma, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Morris Otto Evanson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Alfred Hitchcock
NERFINISHED
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Henry Fonda NERFINISHED ⓘ Ingrid Bergman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Edith Evanson Description of subject: Edith Evanson was an American character actress known for her supporting roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including several Alfred Hitchcock movies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.