Mrs. Lyman (mother, fictional)
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Mrs. Lyman is the fictional mother of Josh Lyman from the television series "The West Wing," occasionally referenced as part of his family background.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Lyman (mother, fictional) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6765981 — 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: Mrs. Lyman (mother, fictional) Context triple: [Josh Lyman, hasRelative, Mrs. Lyman (mother, fictional)]
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A.
Meredith March
Meredith March was a pivotal 1966 civil rights protest march in Mississippi, led in part by James Meredith, that highlighted the struggle against racial discrimination and helped galvanize the broader movement for voting rights and equality.
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B.
Victorine Haven Putnam
Victorine Haven Putnam was the first wife of American publisher and explorer George Palmer Putnam, connected to the prominent Putnam publishing family.
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C.
Harriet Putnam
Harriet Putnam is a notable member of the Putnam family, recognized for her significance within this historically prominent lineage.
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D.
Jane Hopper
Jane Hopper is the birth name and legal identity of Eleven, the telekinetic girl central to the Netflix series "Stranger Things."
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E.
Sophia Peabody
Sophia Peabody was a 19th-century American painter, illustrator, and writer associated with the Transcendentalist circle and known for her intellectual partnership with Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- 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: Mrs. Lyman (mother, fictional) Target entity description: Mrs. Lyman is the fictional mother of Josh Lyman from the television series "The West Wing," occasionally referenced as part of his family background.
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A.
Meredith March
Meredith March was a pivotal 1966 civil rights protest march in Mississippi, led in part by James Meredith, that highlighted the struggle against racial discrimination and helped galvanize the broader movement for voting rights and equality.
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B.
Victorine Haven Putnam
Victorine Haven Putnam was the first wife of American publisher and explorer George Palmer Putnam, connected to the prominent Putnam publishing family.
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C.
Harriet Putnam
Harriet Putnam is a notable member of the Putnam family, recognized for her significance within this historically prominent lineage.
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D.
Jane Hopper
Jane Hopper is the birth name and legal identity of Eleven, the telekinetic girl central to the Netflix series "Stranger Things."
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E.
Sophia Peabody
Sophia Peabody was a 19th-century American painter, illustrator, and writer associated with the Transcendentalist circle and known for her intellectual partnership with Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The West Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Aaron Sorkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedAs | supportive mother ⓘ |
| familyName | Lyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRelation | mother of Josh Lyman ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The West Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | off-screen, referenced only ⓘ |
| genre | political drama ⓘ |
| hasChild | Josh Lyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | background family member ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Josh Lyman
NERFINISHED
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Noah Lyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| onScreenPresence | primarily off-screen, referenced in dialogue ⓘ |
| partOf | Lyman family (The West Wing) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | unknown ⓘ |
| settingUniverse | Bartlet administration White House era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Noah Lyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Lyman (mother, fictional) Description of subject: Mrs. Lyman is the fictional mother of Josh Lyman from the television series "The West Wing," occasionally referenced as part of his family background.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Josh Lyman