Brenda Strong
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Brenda Strong is an American actress best known for her role as Mary Alice Young, the narrator of the television series "Desperate Housewives."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brenda Strong canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5714184 — 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: Brenda Strong Context triple: [North Hollywood High School, hasNotableAlumnus, Brenda Strong]
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A.
Brenda Walsh
Brenda Walsh is a central teenage character from the 1990s television drama "Beverly Hills, 90210," known for her complex relationships, family dynamics, and coming-of-age storylines.
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B.
Brenda Wright
Brenda Wright is known as the former wife of Australian comedian and satirist Barry Humphries.
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C.
Brenda Leigh Johnson
Brenda Leigh Johnson is the sharp, determined Deputy Chief of the LAPD’s Major Crimes Division in the TV series "The Closer," known for her exceptional interrogation skills and unorthodox but effective investigative methods.
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D.
Myrna Smith
Myrna Smith was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded and toured with artists like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin.
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E.
Ramona Isabel Wright
Ramona Isabel Wright is the daughter of Tré Cool, the drummer of the American punk rock band Green Day.
- 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: Brenda Strong Target entity description: Brenda Strong is an American actress best known for her role as Mary Alice Young, the narrator of the television series "Desperate Housewives."
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A.
Brenda Walsh
Brenda Walsh is a central teenage character from the 1990s television drama "Beverly Hills, 90210," known for her complex relationships, family dynamics, and coming-of-age storylines.
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B.
Brenda Wright
Brenda Wright is known as the former wife of Australian comedian and satirist Barry Humphries.
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C.
Brenda Leigh Johnson
Brenda Leigh Johnson is the sharp, determined Deputy Chief of the LAPD’s Major Crimes Division in the TV series "The Closer," known for her exceptional interrogation skills and unorthodox but effective investigative methods.
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D.
Myrna Smith
Myrna Smith was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded and toured with artists like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin.
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E.
Ramona Isabel Wright
Ramona Isabel Wright is the daughter of Tré Cool, the drummer of the American punk rock band Green Day.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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human ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Ann Ewing in Dallas (2012 TV series)
NERFINISHED
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Mary Alice Young in Desperate Housewives NERFINISHED ⓘ Nia Nal’s mother in Supergirl ⓘ The First Lady in The 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-03-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Arizona State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| familyName | Strong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
film
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television ⓘ |
| givenName | Brenda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasChild | 1 son ⓘ |
| height | approximately 1.83 m ⓘ |
| knownFor |
narration work on television
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portraying Mary Alice Young on Desperate Housewives ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Brenda Strong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrated | Desperate Housewives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature | distinctive voice used for narration ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dallas (2012 TV series)
NERFINISHED
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Desperate Housewives NERFINISHED ⓘ Seinfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ Starship Troopers NERFINISHED ⓘ Supergirl NERFINISHED ⓘ The 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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television director ⓘ voice actress ⓘ yoga instructor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Everwood
NERFINISHED
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Sports Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Starship Troopers (1997 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Craft NERFINISHED ⓘ The Deep End of the Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ Twin Peaks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brightwood, Oregon, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse |
John Farmanesh-Bocca
NERFINISHED
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Tom Henri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Brenda Strong Description of subject: Brenda Strong is an American actress best known for her role as Mary Alice Young, the narrator of the television series "Desperate Housewives."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.