Myrtle Reeves
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Myrtle Reeves was the first wife of American comic actor Oliver Hardy, known primarily for her connection to the famed Laurel and Hardy star.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Myrtle Reeves canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7488113 — 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: Myrtle Reeves Context triple: [Oliver Hardy, spouse, Myrtle Reeves]
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A.
Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford was an American traditional pop and jazz singer renowned for her smooth vocal style and numerous hit recordings from the 1940s through the 1950s.
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B.
Dottie West
Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter known for her influential solo career and popular duets, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Cornelia Lane
Cornelia Lane was the second wife of American author Sherwood Anderson, known primarily through her marriage to the influential modernist writer.
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D.
Julie London
Julie London was an American singer and actress renowned for her sultry, intimate vocal style and popular recordings in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Sandy Rodgers
Sandy Rodgers is the young African American protagonist of Langston Hughes's novel "Not Without Laughter," whose coming-of-age story explores race, family, and identity in early 20th-century Kansas.
- 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: Myrtle Reeves Target entity description: Myrtle Reeves was the first wife of American comic actor Oliver Hardy, known primarily for her connection to the famed Laurel and Hardy star.
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A.
Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford was an American traditional pop and jazz singer renowned for her smooth vocal style and numerous hit recordings from the 1940s through the 1950s.
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B.
Dottie West
Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter known for her influential solo career and popular duets, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Cornelia Lane
Cornelia Lane was the second wife of American author Sherwood Anderson, known primarily through her marriage to the influential modernist writer.
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D.
Julie London
Julie London was an American singer and actress renowned for her sultry, intimate vocal style and popular recordings in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Sandy Rodgers
Sandy Rodgers is the young African American protagonist of Langston Hughes's novel "Not Without Laughter," whose coming-of-age story explores race, family, and identity in early 20th-century Kansas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse of a celebrity ⓘ |
| associatedWith | American film industry ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Laurel and Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genreOfNotability | silent film era Hollywood ⓘ |
| hasNoChildrenWith | Oliver Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownAs | Myrtle Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced from Oliver Hardy ⓘ |
| marriageEndToOliverHardy | 1921 ⓘ |
| marriageStartToOliverHardy | 1913 ⓘ |
| mediaDepiction | mentioned in biographies of Oliver Hardy ⓘ |
| name | Myrtle Reeves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Oliver Hardy ⓘ |
| notableRelation | Oliver Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | housewife ⓘ |
| partOf | personal life of Oliver Hardy ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Jacksonville, Florida
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipToOliverHardy | first spouse ⓘ |
| spouse |
Myrtle Reeves
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oliver Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of Oliver Hardy ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Myrtle Reeves Description of subject: Myrtle Reeves was the first wife of American comic actor Oliver Hardy, known primarily for her connection to the famed Laurel and Hardy star.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.