Lina Basquette
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Lina Basquette was an American actress and dancer best known as a silent film star and Ziegfeld Follies performer whose tumultuous personal life and multiple marriages drew significant public attention.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lina Basquette canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9148218 — 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: Lina Basquette Context triple: [Sam Warner, spouse, Lina Basquette]
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A.
Anna Nolin
Anna Nolin is an American educator and school district leader who serves as superintendent of the Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts.
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B.
Eileen Herlie
Eileen Herlie was a Scottish-American actress best known for her classical stage work and prominent film and television roles, including notable Shakespearean performances.
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C.
Juanita Vanoy
Juanita Vanoy is a former model and Chicago-based real estate professional best known as the ex-wife of basketball legend Michael Jordan.
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D.
Madelyn Salosihn
Madelyn Salosihn was the first wife of American comic actor Oliver Hardy, known for his work in the Laurel and Hardy comedy duo.
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E.
Diane Divelbess
Diane Divelbess is a character in the television film "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story," which dramatizes the real-life experiences of a U.S. Army officer challenging the military’s ban on openly gay service members.
- 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: Lina Basquette Target entity description: Lina Basquette was an American actress and dancer best known as a silent film star and Ziegfeld Follies performer whose tumultuous personal life and multiple marriages drew significant public attention.
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A.
Anna Nolin
Anna Nolin is an American educator and school district leader who serves as superintendent of the Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts.
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B.
Eileen Herlie
Eileen Herlie was a Scottish-American actress best known for her classical stage work and prominent film and television roles, including notable Shakespearean performances.
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C.
Juanita Vanoy
Juanita Vanoy is a former model and Chicago-based real estate professional best known as the ex-wife of basketball legend Michael Jordan.
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D.
Madelyn Salosihn
Madelyn Salosihn was the first wife of American comic actor Oliver Hardy, known for his work in the Laurel and Hardy comedy duo.
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E.
Diane Divelbess
Diane Divelbess is a character in the television film "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story," which dramatizes the real-life experiences of a U.S. Army officer challenging the military’s ban on openly gay service members.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dancer
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1916 ⓘ |
| birthName | Lena Copeland Baskette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling, West Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lymphoma ⓘ |
| child | Lita Warner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1907-04-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-09-30 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | obituaries in major American newspapers ⓘ |
| employer | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Baskette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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silent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Lena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ziegfeld Follies performances
NERFINISHED
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silent film roles ⓘ |
| laterCareer | Great Dane breeder ⓘ |
| name | Lina Basquette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | custody battle with Warner family over daughter Lita Warner ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Show Folks
NERFINISHED
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The Godless Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ The Noose NERFINISHED ⓘ The Younger Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfMarriages | 9 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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dancer ⓘ dog breeder ⓘ |
| performedIn | Ziegfeld Follies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Mateo, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Wheeling, West Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Warner family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Frank Mancuso
NERFINISHED
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Henry de Brus NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard C. Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Lloyd Randall NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Hocker NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Warner NERFINISHED ⓘ Theodore Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lina Basquette Description of subject: Lina Basquette was an American actress and dancer best known as a silent film star and Ziegfeld Follies performer whose tumultuous personal life and multiple marriages drew significant public attention.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.