Lea DeLaria
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Lea DeLaria is an American comedian, jazz singer, and actress best known for her groundbreaking stand-up work and her role as Big Boo on the television series "Orange Is the New Black."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lea DeLaria canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8566709 — 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: Lea DeLaria Context triple: [I Can Cook Too, notablePerformer, Lea DeLaria]
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A.
Jane Leeves
Jane Leeves is an English actress best known for her role as Daphne Moon on the television sitcom "Frasier."
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B.
Estelle Harris
Estelle Harris was an American actress and comedian best known for her shrill-voiced, comedic roles in film and television, including playing Estelle Costanza on "Seinfeld" and voicing Mrs. Potato Head in the "Toy Story" franchise.
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C.
Cheri Oteri
Cheri Oteri is an American comedian and actress best known as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" in the late 1990s, where she created several popular recurring characters.
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D.
Alice Louise Shepard
Alice Louise Shepard was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family of the American Gilded Age, known primarily through her lineage as a granddaughter of industrialist William Henry Vanderbilt.
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E.
Lois Nettleton
Lois Nettleton was an American actress known for her versatile work in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1990s.
- 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: Lea DeLaria Target entity description: Lea DeLaria is an American comedian, jazz singer, and actress best known for her groundbreaking stand-up work and her role as Big Boo on the television series "Orange Is the New Black."
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A.
Jane Leeves
Jane Leeves is an English actress best known for her role as Daphne Moon on the television sitcom "Frasier."
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B.
Estelle Harris
Estelle Harris was an American actress and comedian best known for her shrill-voiced, comedic roles in film and television, including playing Estelle Costanza on "Seinfeld" and voicing Mrs. Potato Head in the "Toy Story" franchise.
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C.
Cheri Oteri
Cheri Oteri is an American comedian and actress best known as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" in the late 1990s, where she created several popular recurring characters.
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D.
Alice Louise Shepard
Alice Louise Shepard was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family of the American Gilded Age, known primarily through her lineage as a granddaughter of industrialist William Henry Vanderbilt.
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E.
Lois Nettleton
Lois Nettleton was an American actress known for her versatile work in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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comedian ⓘ human ⓘ jazz singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Cars 3
NERFINISHED
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Edge of Seventeen NERFINISHED ⓘ The First Wives Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole | Carrie "Big Boo" Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-05-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Illinois Wesleyan University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian American ⓘ |
| familyName | DeLaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
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comedy ⓘ music ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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stand-up comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Lea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInstrument | voice ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
film
ⓘ
stage ⓘ television ⓘ |
| hasVoiceType | contralto ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | LGBT rights movement ⓘ |
| name | Lea DeLaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | one of the first openly gay comics on American television talk shows ⓘ |
| notableFor |
groundbreaking openly gay stand-up comedy
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portrayal of Big Boo on Orange Is the New Black ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Boobies on the Road
NERFINISHED
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House of David NERFINISHED ⓘ Orange Is the New Black NERFINISHED ⓘ The Live Smoke Sessions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
LGBT rights activist
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actress ⓘ comedian ⓘ jazz singer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Broadway
NERFINISHED
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Off-Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performerOf | jazz standards ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Belleville, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Orange Is the New Black (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
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: Lea DeLaria Description of subject: Lea DeLaria is an American comedian, jazz singer, and actress best known for her groundbreaking stand-up work and her role as Big Boo on the television series "Orange Is the New Black."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.