Laurel DuBose
E1040871
Laurel DuBose is a character on the television series "This Is Us," known as the biological mother of Randall Pearson whose hidden past and struggles with addiction are gradually revealed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laurel DuBose canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13334437 — 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: Laurel DuBose Context triple: [Randall Pearson, biologicalMother, Laurel DuBose]
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A.
Martha Julianna DuBose
Martha Julianna DuBose was the wife of prominent 19th-century American politician and Confederate leader Robert Toombs.
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B.
Mary Philbin
Mary Philbin was an American silent film actress best known for her role as Christine Daaé in the 1925 classic horror film "The Phantom of the Opera."
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C.
Gloria Gaines
Gloria Gaines is the wife of longtime White House butler Cecil Gaines in the film "The Butler," serving as a central figure in his personal and family life.
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D.
Loretta Jamison
Loretta Jamison is a character in the horror film "The Visit," serving as one of the unsettling elderly relatives central to the movie’s suspense and mystery.
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E.
Loretta Brown
Loretta Brown is a fictional character from the animated television series "Family Guy" and its spin-off "The Cleveland Show," known as Cleveland Brown's first wife.
- 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: Laurel DuBose Target entity description: Laurel DuBose is a character on the television series "This Is Us," known as the biological mother of Randall Pearson whose hidden past and struggles with addiction are gradually revealed.
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A.
Martha Julianna DuBose
Martha Julianna DuBose was the wife of prominent 19th-century American politician and Confederate leader Robert Toombs.
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B.
Mary Philbin
Mary Philbin was an American silent film actress best known for her role as Christine Daaé in the 1925 classic horror film "The Phantom of the Opera."
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C.
Gloria Gaines
Gloria Gaines is the wife of longtime White House butler Cecil Gaines in the film "The Butler," serving as a central figure in his personal and family life.
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D.
Loretta Jamison
Loretta Jamison is a character in the horror film "The Visit," serving as one of the unsettling elderly relatives central to the movie’s suspense and mystery.
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E.
Loretta Brown
Loretta Brown is a fictional character from the animated television series "Family Guy" and its spin-off "The Cleveland Show," known as Cleveland Brown's first wife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| abandonedChild | Randall Pearson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | This Is Us NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
New Orleans
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pittsburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| biologicalChild | Randall Pearson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedToCharacter |
Beth Pearson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack Pearson NERFINISHED ⓘ Kate Pearson NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Pearson NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebecca Pearson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedToFamily | Pearson family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Dan Fogelman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | This Is Us universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | This Is Us, season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gaveBirthTo | Randall Pearson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAddiction | heroin addiction ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being Randall Pearson’s biological mother
ⓘ
struggles with drug addiction ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| network | NBC ⓘ |
| occupation | artist ⓘ |
| parentOf | Randall Pearson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partner | William Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Angela Gibbs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jennifer C. Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyArcFocus |
family secrets
ⓘ
recovery from trauma ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
addiction and recovery
ⓘ
motherhood ⓘ race and identity ⓘ |
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: Laurel DuBose Description of subject: Laurel DuBose is a character on the television series "This Is Us," known as the biological mother of Randall Pearson whose hidden past and struggles with addiction are gradually revealed.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.