Kathryn Lee Epstein
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Kathryn Lee Epstein is the birth name of American television host, singer, and author Kathie Lee Gifford, best known for her long-running roles on morning talk shows like "Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee" and the fourth hour of "Today."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kathryn Lee Epstein canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3975663 — 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)
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Target entity: Kathryn Lee Epstein Context triple: [Kathie Lee Gifford, birthName, Kathryn Lee Epstein]
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A.
Nancy Shevell
Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman and heiress best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to musician Paul McCartney.
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B.
Virginia Weidler
Virginia Weidler was an American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best remembered for her witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Philadelphia Story."
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C.
Margaret Sixel
Margaret Sixel is an Academy Award–winning film editor best known for her dynamic, high-intensity work on action films such as Mad Max: Fury Road.
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D.
Katherine Spiegel
Katherine Spiegel was the wife of prominent American film director and producer Mervyn LeRoy.
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E.
Catherine Lee Tobin
Catherine Lee Tobin was the first wife of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom she had six children before their highly publicized separation.
- 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: Kathryn Lee Epstein Target entity description: Kathryn Lee Epstein is the birth name of American television host, singer, and author Kathie Lee Gifford, best known for her long-running roles on morning talk shows like "Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee" and the fourth hour of "Today."
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A.
Nancy Shevell
Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman and heiress best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to musician Paul McCartney.
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B.
Virginia Weidler
Virginia Weidler was an American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best remembered for her witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Philadelphia Story."
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C.
Margaret Sixel
Margaret Sixel is an Academy Award–winning film editor best known for her dynamic, high-intensity work on action films such as Mad Max: Fury Road.
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D.
Katherine Spiegel
Katherine Spiegel was the wife of prominent American film director and producer Mervyn LeRoy.
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E.
Catherine Lee Tobin
Catherine Lee Tobin was the first wife of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom she had six children before their highly publicized separation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television personality
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author ⓘ human ⓘ singer ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Kathie Lee Gifford ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Kathie Lee Gifford ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entertainment industry
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non-fiction writing ⓘ popular music ⓘ television presenting ⓘ |
| genre | morning talk show ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Epstein ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Kathryn ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Lee ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Kathryn Lee Epstein self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | long-running roles on American morning talk shows ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
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surface form:
Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee
Today (U.S. TV program) Wikipedia article ⓘ
surface form:
Today (U.S. TV program)
fourth hour of Today ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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singer ⓘ television host ⓘ |
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: Kathryn Lee Epstein Description of subject: Kathryn Lee Epstein is the birth name of American television host, singer, and author Kathie Lee Gifford, best known for her long-running roles on morning talk shows like "Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee" and the fourth hour of "Today."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.