Cecily Adams
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Cecily Adams was an American actress and casting director, best known for her role as Ishka on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and her extensive work in television casting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cecily Adams canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5108448 — 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: Cecily Adams Context triple: [Jim Beaver, spouse, Cecily Adams]
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A.
Cecily More
Cecily More was one of the daughters of Sir Thomas More, known primarily through her connection to his prominent humanist and political legacy in Tudor England.
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B.
Cecilia Parker
Cecilia Parker was a Canadian-born American film actress best known for playing Marian Hardy, the sister of Mickey Rooney’s character, in the popular Andy Hardy film series of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Cecilia Pawley
Cecilia Pawley was the first wife of Group Captain Peter Townsend, a distinguished Royal Air Force officer closely associated with the British royal family.
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D.
Adele Cutts
Adele Cutts was a 19th-century American socialite best known as the second wife of prominent U.S. senator and statesman Stephen A. Douglas.
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E.
Bess Macauley
Bess Macauley is the central protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," around whom the story’s emotional and moral themes revolve.
- 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: Cecily Adams Target entity description: Cecily Adams was an American actress and casting director, best known for her role as Ishka on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and her extensive work in television casting.
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A.
Cecily More
Cecily More was one of the daughters of Sir Thomas More, known primarily through her connection to his prominent humanist and political legacy in Tudor England.
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B.
Cecilia Parker
Cecilia Parker was a Canadian-born American film actress best known for playing Marian Hardy, the sister of Mickey Rooney’s character, in the popular Andy Hardy film series of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Cecilia Pawley
Cecilia Pawley was the first wife of Group Captain Peter Townsend, a distinguished Royal Air Force officer closely associated with the British royal family.
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D.
Adele Cutts
Adele Cutts was a 19th-century American socialite best known as the second wife of prominent U.S. senator and statesman Stephen A. Douglas.
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E.
Bess Macauley
Bess Macauley is the central protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," around whom the story’s emotional and moral themes revolve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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casting director ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| appearedIn | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| child | Maddie Beaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-02-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-03-03 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| givenName | Cecily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | role of Ishka on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Cecily Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamilyRelation | daughter of actor Don Adams ⓘ |
| notableWork |
television casting for 3rd Rock from the Sun
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television casting for That ’70s Show ⓘ |
| occupation |
acting coach
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actress ⓘ casting director ⓘ |
| parent |
Adelaide Efantis Adams
NERFINISHED
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Don Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Ishka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse | Jim Beaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAsCastingDirectorOn |
3rd Rock from the Sun
NERFINISHED
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E-Ring NERFINISHED ⓘ That ’70s Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Huntress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–2004 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cecily Adams Description of subject: Cecily Adams was an American actress and casting director, best known for her role as Ishka on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and her extensive work in television casting.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.