Emily Lightman
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Emily Lightman is the teenage daughter of deception expert Cal Lightman in the TV series "Lie to Me," often serving as his emotional anchor and moral compass.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emily Lightman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1749541 — 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: Emily Lightman Context triple: [Lie to Me, mainCharacter, Emily Lightman]
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A.
Juliana Raymond
Juliana Raymond is a daughter of 19th-century American journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond, co-founder of The New York Times.
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B.
Sarah Eaves
Sarah Eaves was the partner and later wife of the renowned English printer and typographer John Baskerville, closely involved in his household and business affairs.
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C.
Rebecca Giblin
Rebecca Giblin is an Australian legal scholar and advocate specializing in copyright, technology, and creators’ rights, known for her work on how digital platforms affect cultural industries.
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D.
Alanna Heiss
Alanna Heiss is an American curator and arts administrator best known for pioneering alternative art spaces and founding the influential contemporary art institution MoMA PS1 in New York City.
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E.
Erin Cressida Wilson
Erin Cressida Wilson is an American playwright, screenwriter, and professor known for her darkly psychological, character-driven scripts, including the adaptation of "The Girl on the Train."
- 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: Emily Lightman Target entity description: Emily Lightman is the teenage daughter of deception expert Cal Lightman in the TV series "Lie to Me," often serving as his emotional anchor and moral compass.
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A.
Juliana Raymond
Juliana Raymond is a daughter of 19th-century American journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond, co-founder of The New York Times.
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B.
Sarah Eaves
Sarah Eaves was the partner and later wife of the renowned English printer and typographer John Baskerville, closely involved in his household and business affairs.
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C.
Rebecca Giblin
Rebecca Giblin is an Australian legal scholar and advocate specializing in copyright, technology, and creators’ rights, known for her work on how digital platforms affect cultural industries.
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D.
Alanna Heiss
Alanna Heiss is an American curator and arts administrator best known for pioneering alternative art spaces and founding the influential contemporary art institution MoMA PS1 in New York City.
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E.
Erin Cressida Wilson
Erin Cressida Wilson is an American playwright, screenwriter, and professor known for her darkly psychological, character-driven scripts, including the adaptation of "The Girl on the Train."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| ageGroup | teenager ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Lie to Me ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Lie to Me
ⓘ
surface form:
Lie to Me (TV series)
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| familyName | Lightman ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Lie to Me
ⓘ
surface form:
Lie to Me universe
|
| firstAppearance |
Lie to Me
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surface form:
Lie to Me, Season 1
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Emily ⓘ |
| hasFather |
Dr. Cal Lightman
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surface form:
Cal Lightman
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| hasLastNameFrom |
Dr. Cal Lightman
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surface form:
Cal Lightman
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| hasMother | Zoe Landau ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Dr. Cal Lightman
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surface form:
Cal Lightman
Gillian Foster ⓘ Zoe Landau ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
creates personal stakes for Cal Lightman
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humanizes Cal Lightman ⓘ |
| occupation | student ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Hayley McFarland ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C. (fictional setting in series)
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| roleInStory |
emotional anchor for Cal Lightman
ⓘ
moral compass for Cal Lightman ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Emily Lightman Description of subject: Emily Lightman is the teenage daughter of deception expert Cal Lightman in the TV series "Lie to Me," often serving as his emotional anchor and moral compass.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.