Phyllida
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Phyllida is a Scottish actress and author best known for her work in film, television, and theatre, as well as being the mother of actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phyllida canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1016425 — 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: Phyllida Context triple: [Phyllida Law, givenName, Phyllida]
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A.
Fiona Black
Fiona Black is a notable individual recognized for achievements that have brought distinction to the surname Black.
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B.
Phylicia
Phylicia is a feminine given name best known through American actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
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C.
Hera Gamelia
Hera Gamelia is an aspect of the Greek goddess Hera worshipped as the protector of marriage and the wedding rite.
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D.
Rhea Langham
Rhea Langham was the second wife of Hollywood actor Clark Gable, to whom he was married during the early 1930s.
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E.
Eleanor Black
Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
- 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: Phyllida Target entity description: Phyllida is a Scottish actress and author best known for her work in film, television, and theatre, as well as being the mother of actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson.
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A.
Fiona Black
Fiona Black is a notable individual recognized for achievements that have brought distinction to the surname Black.
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B.
Phylicia
Phylicia is a feminine given name best known through American actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
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C.
Hera Gamelia
Hera Gamelia is an aspect of the Greek goddess Hera worshipped as the protector of marriage and the wedding rite.
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D.
Rhea Langham
Rhea Langham was the second wife of Hollywood actor Clark Gable, to whom he was married during the early 1930s.
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E.
Eleanor Black
Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
author ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ theatre actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Emma Thompson
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Sophie Thompson ⓘ |
| notableFor |
work in film
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work in television ⓘ work in theatre ⓘ |
| notableWorkField |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
author ⓘ |
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: Phyllida Description of subject: Phyllida is a Scottish actress and author best known for her work in film, television, and theatre, as well as being the mother of actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.