Viola Davis
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Viola Davis is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances across film, television, and theater, and for breaking barriers as one of the most awarded Black actresses in Hollywood history.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Viola Davis canonical | 61 |
| Viola Davis won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Rose Maxson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T535654 — 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: Viola Davis Context triple: [Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, notableMultipleWinner, Viola Davis]
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A.
Regina King
Regina King is an acclaimed American actress and director known for her award-winning performances in film and television, including roles in "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Watchmen," and "Jerry Maguire."
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B.
Taraji P. Henson
Taraji P. Henson is an American actress known for her versatile performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in projects like "Empire," "Hidden Figures," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
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C.
Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film and television, particularly in biographical and dramatic roles.
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D.
Melissa Leo
Melissa Leo is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful character roles in film and television, including her Oscar-winning performance in "The Fighter."
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E.
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg is an acclaimed American actress, comedian, and television host known for her EGOT-winning career spanning film, television, and theater.
- 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: Viola Davis Target entity description: Viola Davis is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances across film, television, and theater, and for breaking barriers as one of the most awarded Black actresses in Hollywood history.
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A.
Regina King
Regina King is an acclaimed American actress and director known for her award-winning performances in film and television, including roles in "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Watchmen," and "Jerry Maguire."
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B.
Taraji P. Henson
Taraji P. Henson is an American actress known for her versatile performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in projects like "Empire," "Hidden Figures," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
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C.
Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film and television, particularly in biographical and dramatic roles.
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D.
Melissa Leo
Melissa Leo is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful character roles in film and television, including her Oscar-winning performance in "The Fighter."
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E.
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg is an acclaimed American actress, comedian, and television host known for her EGOT-winning career spanning film, television, and theater.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Viola Davis Description of subject: Viola Davis is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances across film, television, and theater, and for breaking barriers as one of the most awarded Black actresses in Hollywood history.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
State of Play (2009 film)
subject surface form:
Get on Up
this entity surface form:
Viola Davis won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Rose Maxson
subject surface form:
St. Matthews, South Carolina