Diane Sterling
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Diane Sterling is a recurring character in the TV series "NCIS," known as one of Leroy Jethro Gibbs' ex-wives and for her sharp, contentious yet humorous dynamic with him.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Diane Sterling canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8267637 — 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: Diane Sterling Context triple: [Leroy Jethro Gibbs, spouse, Diane Sterling]
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A.
Diane Lucas
Diane Lucas is a fictional character appearing in the Doctor Who serial "The Silence."
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B.
Diane Cory
Diane Cory is known as a former spouse of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman.
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C.
Diane Millstead
Diane Millstead is an Australian academic and writer best known as the former wife of comedian and satirist Barry Humphries.
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D.
Diane Simmons
Diane Simmons is a fictional Quahog news anchor and recurring character on the animated television series "Family Guy."
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E.
Diane Johnston
Diane Johnston is the mother of American record producer and songwriter Bob Johnston.
- 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: Diane Sterling Target entity description: Diane Sterling is a recurring character in the TV series "NCIS," known as one of Leroy Jethro Gibbs' ex-wives and for her sharp, contentious yet humorous dynamic with him.
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A.
Diane Lucas
Diane Lucas is a fictional character appearing in the Doctor Who serial "The Silence."
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B.
Diane Cory
Diane Cory is known as a former spouse of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman.
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C.
Diane Millstead
Diane Millstead is an Australian academic and writer best known as the former wife of comedian and satirist Barry Humphries.
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D.
Diane Simmons
Diane Simmons is a fictional Quahog news anchor and recurring character on the animated television series "Family Guy."
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E.
Diane Johnston
Diane Johnston is the mother of American record producer and songwriter Bob Johnston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCIS character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
NCIS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NCIS (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | police procedural television series ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NCIS Major Case Response Team NERFINISHED ⓘ Tobias C. Fornell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characteristic |
contentious
ⓘ
humorous ⓘ sarcastic ⓘ sharp-tongued ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfSeries | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
IRS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Internal Revenue Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exSpouseOf |
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tobias C. Fornell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | NCIS universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInSeries | NCIS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasExHusband |
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tobias C. Fornell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
confrontational
ⓘ
strong-willed ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith |
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tobias C. Fornell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
acerbic banter with Leroy Jethro Gibbs
ⓘ
being one of Leroy Jethro Gibbs' ex-wives ⓘ love-hate dynamic with Gibbs ⓘ |
| languageOfSeries | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
comic relief
ⓘ
explores Gibbs' past marriages ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | recurring character ⓘ |
| occupation | Internal Revenue Service special agent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | NCIS franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Melinda McGraw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithFornell | divorced GENERATED ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithGibbs | divorced GENERATED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tobias C. Fornell 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: Diane Sterling Description of subject: Diane Sterling is a recurring character in the TV series "NCIS," known as one of Leroy Jethro Gibbs' ex-wives and for her sharp, contentious yet humorous dynamic with him.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.