Carol Kester
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Carol Kester is the witty, fast-talking receptionist on the classic American sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carol Kester canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2732251 — 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: Carol Kester Context triple: [The Bob Newhart Show, character, Carol Kester]
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A.
Kitty Carlisle
Kitty Carlisle was an American singer, actress, and television personality best known for her long-running panelist role on the game show "To Tell the Truth" and her contributions to the performing arts.
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B.
Dede Allen
Dede Allen was a pioneering American film editor renowned for her innovative, influential cutting style on landmark movies of the New Hollywood era.
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C.
Alice Arlen
Alice Arlen was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed films such as "Silkwood" and "Alamo Bay."
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D.
Crystal Langhorne
Crystal Langhorne is an American former professional basketball player and WNBA All-Star known for her efficient post play and key contributions to multiple championship-contending teams.
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E.
Patricia Carey
Patricia Carey is an Irish-American opera singer and vocal coach best known as the mother of pop superstar Mariah Carey.
- 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: Carol Kester Target entity description: Carol Kester is the witty, fast-talking receptionist on the classic American sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
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A.
Kitty Carlisle
Kitty Carlisle was an American singer, actress, and television personality best known for her long-running panelist role on the game show "To Tell the Truth" and her contributions to the performing arts.
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B.
Dede Allen
Dede Allen was a pioneering American film editor renowned for her innovative, influential cutting style on landmark movies of the New Hollywood era.
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C.
Alice Arlen
Alice Arlen was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed films such as "Silkwood" and "Alamo Bay."
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D.
Crystal Langhorne
Crystal Langhorne is an American former professional basketball player and WNBA All-Star known for her efficient post play and key contributions to multiple championship-contending teams.
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E.
Patricia Carey
Patricia Carey is an Irish-American opera singer and vocal coach best known as the mother of pop superstar Mariah Carey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Bob Newhart Show ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bob Hartley
ⓘ
Emily Hartley ⓘ Howard Borden ⓘ Jerry Robinson ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Chicago
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago, Illinois
|
| characterTrait |
fast-talking
ⓘ
witty ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employer | Bob Hartley ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Bob Newhart Show
ⓘ
surface form:
The Bob Newhart Show universe
|
| firstAppearanceIn | The Bob Newhart Show ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| hasGenre | American television sitcom ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | comic relief ⓘ |
| network | CBS ⓘ |
| occupation | receptionist ⓘ |
| partOf | ensemble cast of The Bob Newhart Show ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | psychologist’s office ⓘ |
| workLocation | Chicago ⓘ |
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: Carol Kester Description of subject: Carol Kester is the witty, fast-talking receptionist on the classic American sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Home to Emily
subject surface form:
Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley