Moira Shearer
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Moira Shearer was a celebrated Scottish ballerina and actress best known for her iconic role in the 1948 film "The Red Shoes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Moira Shearer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9824977 — 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: Moira Shearer Context triple: [Michael Powell, workedWith, Moira Shearer]
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A.
Sheena Shirley Orr
Sheena Shirley Orr, better known as Sheena Easton, is a Scottish singer and actress who rose to international fame in the 1980s with hits like "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" and "For Your Eyes Only."
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B.
Shirley Henderson
Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress known for her distinctive voice and roles in films such as the Bridget Jones series and the Harry Potter franchise.
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C.
Susan Mara
Susan Mara is a member of the Mara family, the longtime owners of the NFL’s New York Giants franchise.
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D.
Annette O'Toole
Annette O'Toole is an American actress and singer-songwriter best known for her roles in Superman-related projects, including playing Lana Lang in "Superman III" and Martha Kent on the TV series "Smallville."
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E.
Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid Pitt was a Polish-British actress best known as a cult horror icon for her roles in 1970s British genre films.
- 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: Moira Shearer Target entity description: Moira Shearer was a celebrated Scottish ballerina and actress best known for her iconic role in the 1948 film "The Red Shoes."
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A.
Sheena Shirley Orr
Sheena Shirley Orr, better known as Sheena Easton, is a Scottish singer and actress who rose to international fame in the 1980s with hits like "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" and "For Your Eyes Only."
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B.
Shirley Henderson
Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress known for her distinctive voice and roles in films such as the Bridget Jones series and the Harry Potter franchise.
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C.
Susan Mara
Susan Mara is a member of the Mara family, the longtime owners of the NFL’s New York Giants franchise.
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D.
Annette O'Toole
Annette O'Toole is an American actress and singer-songwriter best known for her roles in Superman-related projects, including playing Lana Lang in "Superman III" and Martha Kent on the TV series "Smallville."
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E.
Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid Pitt was a Polish-British actress best known as a cult horror icon for her roles in 1970s British genre films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballerina
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| birthName | Moira Shearer King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Oxford, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cardiovascular disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1926-01-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-01-31 ⓘ |
| debut | 1941 ⓘ |
| employer |
Royal Ballet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sadler's Wells Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | ballet ⓘ |
| givenName | Moira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | red ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Ludovic Kennedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
classical ballet performances
ⓘ
role in The Red Shoes ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Moira Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Peeping Tom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Man Who Loved Redheads NERFINISHED ⓘ The Red Shoes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of Three Loves NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tales of Hoffmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
ballerina ⓘ dancer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Oxford, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter | Vicky Page NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | The Red Shoes (1948 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Oxford, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromBallet | 1953 ⓘ |
| spouse | Ludovic Kennedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
author
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broadcaster ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| trainedAt | Sadler's Wells Ballet School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Emeric Pressburger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger 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: Moira Shearer Description of subject: Moira Shearer was a celebrated Scottish ballerina and actress best known for her iconic role in the 1948 film "The Red Shoes."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.