Jean Ward in The Practice
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Jean Ward in *The Practice* is a recurring character portrayed by Anna Gunn in the legal drama series about a Boston law firm.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jean Ward in The Practice canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10604483 — 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: Jean Ward in The Practice Context triple: [Anna Gunn, characterInSeries, Jean Ward in The Practice]
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A.
Meredith Vickers
Meredith Vickers is a cold, authoritative Weyland Corporation executive who oversees the Prometheus mission in the 2012 science fiction film "Prometheus."
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B.
Deborah Prentice
Deborah Prentice is an American social psychologist and academic leader known for her work on social norms and for serving as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
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C.
Meredith Baxter
Meredith Baxter is an American actress best known for her role as Elyse Keaton on the 1980s television sitcom "Family Ties."
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D.
Meredith Kurtz
Meredith Kurtz is known as the spouse of American film producer Gary Kurtz, who co-produced the original Star Wars films.
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E.
Cathy Nurse
Cathy Nurse is a member of the Nurse family and a relative of Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman Darnell Nurse.
- 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: Jean Ward in The Practice Target entity description: Jean Ward in *The Practice* is a recurring character portrayed by Anna Gunn in the legal drama series about a Boston law firm.
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A.
Meredith Vickers
Meredith Vickers is a cold, authoritative Weyland Corporation executive who oversees the Prometheus mission in the 2012 science fiction film "Prometheus."
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B.
Deborah Prentice
Deborah Prentice is an American social psychologist and academic leader known for her work on social norms and for serving as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
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C.
Meredith Baxter
Meredith Baxter is an American actress best known for her role as Elyse Keaton on the 1980s television sitcom "Family Ties."
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D.
Meredith Kurtz
Meredith Kurtz is known as the spouse of American film producer Gary Kurtz, who co-produced the original Star Wars films.
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E.
Cathy Nurse
Cathy Nurse is a member of the Nurse family and a relative of Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman Darnell Nurse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsAlongside |
Bobby Donnell (character)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ellenor Frutt (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ Eugene Young (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ Lindsay Dole (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Practice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | courtroom drama ⓘ |
| characterOrigin | American television ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | David E. Kelley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | ABC television network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalLocation | Boston, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | legal drama ⓘ |
| hasFictionalProfession | litigation attorney ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Jean Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasPortrayal | Anna Gunn’s performance in The Practice ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | ABC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| partOf | ensemble cast of The Practice ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Anna Gunn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedByInLanguage | Anna Gunn in English ⓘ |
| recurringCharacterIn | The Practice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Boston law firm ⓘ |
| worksAt | law firm in Boston ⓘ |
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: Jean Ward in The Practice Description of subject: Jean Ward in *The Practice* is a recurring character portrayed by Anna Gunn in the legal drama series about a Boston law firm.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.