Norma Rae
E659780
Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film starring Sally Field as a Southern textile worker who becomes a key figure in a labor union organizing effort.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Norma Rae canonical | 7 |
| Norma Rae Webster in "Norma Rae" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7368652 — 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: Norma Rae Context triple: [John A. Alonzo, notableWork, Norma Rae]
-
A.
Dolly Wilcox
Dolly Wilcox is a member of the Wilcox family, a fictional upper-middle-class English family central to E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End."
-
B.
Norma Jennings
Norma Jennings is a kind-hearted diner owner in the cult television series "Twin Peaks," known for her moral integrity and complicated romantic life.
-
C.
Jo Ann
Jo Ann is a fictional character appearing in the 1947 film noir drama "The Long Night."
-
D.
Thelma Riley
Thelma Riley is the first wife of English rock singer Ozzy Osbourne, with whom he had two children before their divorce in the early 1980s.
-
E.
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
- 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: Norma Rae Target entity description: Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film starring Sally Field as a Southern textile worker who becomes a key figure in a labor union organizing effort.
-
A.
Dolly Wilcox
Dolly Wilcox is a member of the Wilcox family, a fictional upper-middle-class English family central to E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End."
-
B.
Norma Jennings
Norma Jennings is a kind-hearted diner owner in the cult television series "Twin Peaks," known for her moral integrity and complicated romantic life.
-
C.
Jo Ann
Jo Ann is a fictional character appearing in the 1947 film noir drama "The Long Night."
-
D.
Thelma Riley
Thelma Riley is the first wife of English rock singer Ozzy Osbourne, with whom he had two children before their divorce in the early 1980s.
-
E.
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Actress
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Original Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedBy | Sally Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Crystal Lee: A Woman of Inheritance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Henry P. Leifermann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Norma Rae Webster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reuben Warshowsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Webster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John A. Alonzo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Martin Ritt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Sidney Levin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
collective bargaining
ⓘ
social justice ⓘ |
| leadActor | Sally Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | Norma Rae Webster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | David Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Alex Rose
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tamara Asseyev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1979-03-02 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 114 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Harriet Frank Jr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Irving Ravetch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| song | It Goes Like It Goes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| songComposer | David Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| songLyricist | Norman Gimbel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Beau Bridges
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Patricia Neal NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Leibman NERFINISHED ⓘ Sally Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
labor unions
ⓘ
textile industry ⓘ union organizing ⓘ workers' rights ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1970s ⓘ |
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: Norma Rae Description of subject: Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film starring Sally Field as a Southern textile worker who becomes a key figure in a labor union organizing effort.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Norma Rae Webster in "Norma Rae"