Katharine McPhee
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Katharine McPhee is an American singer and actress who gained fame as an American Idol finalist and later for her leading role on the musical drama series "Smash."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Katharine McPhee canonical | 5 |
| Katharine Hope McPhee | 1 |
| Katharine McPhee (album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1226096 — 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: Katharine McPhee Context triple: [Smash, stars, Katharine McPhee]
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A.
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson is an American pop and rock singer, songwriter, and television personality who rose to fame as the first winner of "American Idol" and became known for powerful vocals and hits like "Since U Been Gone."
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B.
Fantasia Barrino
Fantasia Barrino is an American R&B singer and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of American Idol.
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C.
Jordin Sparks
Jordin Sparks is an American pop and R&B singer and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the sixth season of American Idol.
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D.
Lea Michele
Lea Michele is an American actress and singer best known for her starring role as Rachel Berry on the television series "Glee" and her work on Broadway in productions like "Spring Awakening."
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E.
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes is an American country and pop singer best known for her breakout hit "Blue" and her powerful, mature vocals from a young age.
- 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: Katharine McPhee Target entity description: Katharine McPhee is an American singer and actress who gained fame as an American Idol finalist and later for her leading role on the musical drama series "Smash."
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A.
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson is an American pop and rock singer, songwriter, and television personality who rose to fame as the first winner of "American Idol" and became known for powerful vocals and hits like "Since U Been Gone."
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B.
Fantasia Barrino
Fantasia Barrino is an American R&B singer and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of American Idol.
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C.
Jordin Sparks
Jordin Sparks is an American pop and R&B singer and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the sixth season of American Idol.
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D.
Lea Michele
Lea Michele is an American actress and singer best known for her starring role as Rachel Berry on the television series "Glee" and her work on Broadway in productions like "Spring Awakening."
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E.
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes is an American country and pop singer best known for her breakout hit "Blue" and her powerful, mature vocals from a young age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| birthName |
Katharine McPhee
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Katharine Hope McPhee
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfBirth | 1984-03-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Boston Conservatory ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| familyName | McPhee ⓘ |
| father | Daniel McPhee ⓘ |
| genre |
adult contemporary music
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| givenName |
Kathryn
ⓘ
surface form:
Katharine
|
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being runner-up on American Idol season 5
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starring as Karen Cartwright on Smash ⓘ starring as Paige Dineen on Scorpion ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Peisha Arten ⓘ |
| name | Katharine McPhee self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Idol (season 5)
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Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You (album) ⓘ Hysteria (album) ⓘ I Fall in Love Too Easily ⓘ
surface form:
I Fall in Love Too Easily (album)
Katharine McPhee self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Katharine McPhee (album)
Scorpion ⓘ Shark Night 3D ⓘ Smash ⓘ The House Bunny ⓘ Unbroken ⓘ
surface form:
Unbroken (album)
|
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Idol ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| positionHeld |
American Idol (season 5)
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surface form:
American Idol season 5 runner-up
|
| recordLabel |
RCA Records
ⓘ
Verve Records ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
David Foster
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Nick Cokas ⓘ |
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: Katharine McPhee Description of subject: Katharine McPhee is an American singer and actress who gained fame as an American Idol finalist and later for her leading role on the musical drama series "Smash."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Katharine Hope McPhee
this entity surface form:
Katharine McPhee (album)