Cicely Tyson
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Cicely Tyson was an acclaimed American actress renowned for her powerful, trailblazing portrayals of strong Black women in film, television, and theater.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cicely Tyson canonical | 12 |
| Cicely L. Tyson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1675369 — 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: Cicely Tyson Context triple: [Miles Davis, spouse, Cicely Tyson]
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A.
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad is an American actress, singer, and director best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the television series "The Cosby Show."
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B.
Janice McNair
Janice McNair is an American businesswoman and sports executive best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
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C.
Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis was an acclaimed American actor, director, playwright, and civil rights activist known for his powerful performances on stage and screen and his outspoken commitment to social justice.
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D.
Doris Sydnor
Doris Sydnor was the fourth wife of legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, with whom she was married during the final years of his life.
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E.
Leslie Uggams
Leslie Uggams is an American actress and singer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including her acclaimed performances in musical theater and dramatic roles.
- 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: Cicely Tyson Target entity description: Cicely Tyson was an acclaimed American actress renowned for her powerful, trailblazing portrayals of strong Black women in film, television, and theater.
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A.
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad is an American actress, singer, and director best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the television series "The Cosby Show."
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B.
Janice McNair
Janice McNair is an American businesswoman and sports executive best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
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C.
Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis was an acclaimed American actor, director, playwright, and civil rights activist known for his powerful performances on stage and screen and his outspoken commitment to social justice.
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D.
Doris Sydnor
Doris Sydnor was the fourth wife of legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, with whom she was married during the final years of his life.
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E.
Leslie Uggams
Leslie Uggams is an American actress and singer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including her acclaimed performances in musical theater and dramatic roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: Cicely Tyson Description of subject: Cicely Tyson was an acclaimed American actress renowned for her powerful, trailblazing portrayals of strong Black women in film, television, and theater.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cicely L. Tyson
subject surface form:
Idlewild
subject surface form:
The Trip to Bountiful (2014 television film)