Mary Jean Tomlin
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Mary Jean Tomlin, better known as Lily Tomlin, is an acclaimed American actress, comedian, writer, and producer renowned for her work in television, film, and theater since the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Jean Tomlin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11121654 — 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: Mary Jean Tomlin Context triple: [Lily Tomlin, fullName, Mary Jean Tomlin]
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A.
Marylouise Burke
Marylouise Burke is an American character actress known for her work in film, television, and on Broadway, often portraying quirky, comedic supporting roles.
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B.
Eileen Morrow
Eileen Morrow is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Morrow.
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C.
Barbara Hackett
Barbara Hackett is a Canadian businesswoman and home renovator best known as the wife of former Toronto mayor John Tory.
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D.
Joan Foster
Joan Foster is the complex, identity-shifting protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "Lady Oracle," known for her secret life as a gothic romance writer and her struggle to escape her past.
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E.
Joan Lorring
Joan Lorring was a Hong Kong–born American actress best known for her acclaimed film and television roles in the 1940s and 1950s, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "The Corn Is Green."
- 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: Mary Jean Tomlin Target entity description: Mary Jean Tomlin, better known as Lily Tomlin, is an acclaimed American actress, comedian, writer, and producer renowned for her work in television, film, and theater since the 1960s.
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A.
Marylouise Burke
Marylouise Burke is an American character actress known for her work in film, television, and on Broadway, often portraying quirky, comedic supporting roles.
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B.
Eileen Morrow
Eileen Morrow is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Morrow.
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C.
Barbara Hackett
Barbara Hackett is a Canadian businesswoman and home renovator best known as the wife of former Toronto mayor John Tory.
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D.
Joan Foster
Joan Foster is the complex, identity-shifting protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "Lady Oracle," known for her secret life as a gothic romance writer and her struggle to escape her past.
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E.
Joan Lorring
Joan Lorring was a Hong Kong–born American actress best known for her acclaimed film and television roles in the 1940s and 1950s, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "The Corn Is Green."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ television producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award
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Kennedy Center Honors ⓘ Mark Twain Prize for American Humor NERFINISHED ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Screen Actors Guild Award ⓘ Tony Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-09-01 ⓘ |
| familyName | Tomlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| genre |
sketch comedy
ⓘ
stand-up comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Jean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | LGBT rights movement ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Edith Ann
NERFINISHED
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Ernestine the telephone operator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
9 to 5
ⓘ
All of Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Big Business NERFINISHED ⓘ Flirting with Disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ Grace and Frankie NERFINISHED ⓘ I Heart Huckabees NERFINISHED ⓘ Nashville NERFINISHED ⓘ Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In NERFINISHED ⓘ Short Cuts NERFINISHED ⓘ The Incredible Shrinking Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| spouse | Jane Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Lily Tomlin 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: Mary Jean Tomlin Description of subject: Mary Jean Tomlin, better known as Lily Tomlin, is an acclaimed American actress, comedian, writer, and producer renowned for her work in television, film, and theater since the 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.