Sybil
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Sybil is a 1976 television film about a woman with dissociative identity disorder, best known for Sally Field’s acclaimed, Emmy-winning performance in the title role.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sybil canonical | 7 |
| "Millicent and Therese" involves split personality | 1 |
| Sybil (1976 television film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9086297 — 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)
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Target entity: Sybil Context triple: [Sally Field, notableWork, Sybil]
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A.
Sybil
Sybil is a character from the fantasy film "The Magic Sword," known for her role in the story’s magical and adventurous narrative.
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B.
Sybil
Sybil was an illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England, known primarily through her royal lineage and connections within the Anglo-Norman nobility.
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C.
Sybil
Sybil is an American R&B and pop singer best known for her late-1980s and early-1990s hits, including popular covers of classic soul songs.
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D.
Sybylla
Sybylla is the spirited, independent-minded young heroine and narrator of Miles Franklin’s classic Australian novel "My Brilliant Career."
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E.
Sybil, or The Two Nations
Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 social and political novel by Benjamin Disraeli that explores the deep class divisions and harsh conditions of the English working poor during the Industrial Revolution.
- 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: Sybil Target entity description: Sybil is a 1976 television film about a woman with dissociative identity disorder, best known for Sally Field’s acclaimed, Emmy-winning performance in the title role.
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A.
Sybil
Sybil is a character from the fantasy film "The Magic Sword," known for her role in the story’s magical and adventurous narrative.
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B.
Sybil
Sybil was an illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England, known primarily through her royal lineage and connections within the Anglo-Norman nobility.
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C.
Sybil
Sybil is an American R&B and pop singer best known for her late-1980s and early-1990s hits, including popular covers of classic soul songs.
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D.
Sybylla
Sybylla is the spirited, independent-minded young heroine and narrator of Miles Franklin’s classic Australian novel "My Brilliant Career."
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E.
Sybil, or The Two Nations
Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 social and political novel by Benjamin Disraeli that explores the deep class divisions and harsh conditions of the English working poor during the Industrial Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Sybil (1976 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Sybil (book) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Flora Rheta Schreiber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hattie Dorsett NERFINISHED ⓘ Sybil Dorsett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Mario Tosi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Daniel Petrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Ralph Rosenblum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Peter Dunne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1976 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Sybil (2007 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | two-part television film ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
psychological drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
child abuse
ⓘ
psychotherapy ⓘ trauma and memory ⓘ |
| influenced | public awareness of dissociative identity disorder ⓘ |
| locationSetting |
New York City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
rural Minnesota ⓘ |
| mainSubject | dissociative identity disorder ⓘ |
| musicBy | Leonard Rosenman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Sally Field’s Emmy-winning performance ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| partOf | American television films of the 1970s ⓘ |
| portrays | multiple personalities ⓘ |
| producer | Philip Capice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Lorimar Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseMedium | television ⓘ |
| role |
Dr. Cornelia Wilbur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hattie Dorsett NERFINISHED ⓘ Sybil Dorsett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 198 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Stewart Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| stars |
Brad Davis
NERFINISHED
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Joanne Woodward NERFINISHED ⓘ Martine Bartlett NERFINISHED ⓘ Sally Field 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: Sybil Description of subject: Sybil is a 1976 television film about a woman with dissociative identity disorder, best known for Sally Field’s acclaimed, Emmy-winning performance in the title role.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
"Millicent and Therese" involves split personality
this entity surface form:
Sybil (1976 television film)