Dr. Gillian Foster
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Dr. Gillian Foster is a psychologist and expert in deception detection who co-leads the Lightman Group alongside Dr. Cal Lightman in the TV series "Lie to Me."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. Gillian Foster canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1749538 — 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: Dr. Gillian Foster Context triple: [Lie to Me, mainCharacter, Dr. Gillian Foster]
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A.
Dr. Claire Finn
Dr. Claire Finn is a skilled physician and senior medical officer aboard the exploratory spaceship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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B.
Dr. Eleanor O’Hara
Dr. Eleanor O’Hara is a fictional, sharp-witted British emergency room physician on the TV series "Nurse Jackie."
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C.
Dr. Lily Houghton
Dr. Lily Houghton is a daring and resourceful British scientist and adventurer who embarks on a perilous Amazon expedition in Disney’s fantasy adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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D.
Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis
Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis is a physician who served as a key medical respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
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E.
Dr. Randall Mindy
Dr. Randall Mindy is the fictional astronomer protagonist in the satirical disaster film "Don't Look Up," who discovers a comet headed toward Earth and struggles to convince the world of the impending catastrophe.
- 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: Dr. Gillian Foster Target entity description: Dr. Gillian Foster is a psychologist and expert in deception detection who co-leads the Lightman Group alongside Dr. Cal Lightman in the TV series "Lie to Me."
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A.
Dr. Claire Finn
Dr. Claire Finn is a skilled physician and senior medical officer aboard the exploratory spaceship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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B.
Dr. Eleanor O’Hara
Dr. Eleanor O’Hara is a fictional, sharp-witted British emergency room physician on the TV series "Nurse Jackie."
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C.
Dr. Lily Houghton
Dr. Lily Houghton is a daring and resourceful British scientist and adventurer who embarks on a perilous Amazon expedition in Disney’s fantasy adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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D.
Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis
Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis is a physician who served as a key medical respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
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E.
Dr. Randall Mindy
Dr. Randall Mindy is the fictional astronomer protagonist in the satirical disaster film "Don't Look Up," who discovers a comet headed toward Earth and struggles to convince the world of the impending catastrophe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Lie to Me ⓘ |
| basedInFictionalLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| coLeaderWith | Dr. Cal Lightman ⓘ |
| coLeads |
Lightman Group
ⓘ
surface form:
The Lightman Group
|
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdFor | Fox Broadcasting Company ⓘ |
| employer |
Lightman Group
ⓘ
surface form:
The Lightman Group
|
| fictionalProfession | clinical psychologist ⓘ |
| fieldOfExpertise | deception detection ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInSeries |
Lie to Me
ⓘ
surface form:
Lie to Me, Season 1 Episode 1
|
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
procedural drama ⓘ |
| hasColleague |
Eli Loker
ⓘ
Ria Torres ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasRoleInWork |
co-founder of The Lightman Group
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vice president of The Lightman Group ⓘ |
| hasSpecialization | applied psychology ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Lightman Group
ⓘ
surface form:
The Lightman Group
|
| narrativeFunction |
emotional counterbalance to Dr. Cal Lightman
ⓘ
moral center of The Lightman Group ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcastOfWork | Fox ⓘ |
| occupation | psychologist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kelli Williams ⓘ |
| worksWith | Dr. Cal Lightman ⓘ |
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: Dr. Gillian Foster Description of subject: Dr. Gillian Foster is a psychologist and expert in deception detection who co-leads the Lightman Group alongside Dr. Cal Lightman in the TV series "Lie to Me."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.