Kelly McGillis
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Kelly McGillis is an American actress best known for her roles in films such as "Top Gun" and "Witness," where she often portrayed strong, complex female characters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kelly McGillis canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105191 — 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: Kelly McGillis Context triple: [The Accused, starring, Kelly McGillis]
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A.
Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler is an American actress and former model best known for her role as the elf Arwen in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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B.
Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah is an American actress best known for her roles in films such as "Splash," "Blade Runner," and "Kill Bill."
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C.
Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder is an American actress known for her roles in films like "Beetlejuice," "Edward Scissorhands," and "Girl, Interrupted," as well as the TV series "Stranger Things."
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D.
Jill Hennessy
Jill Hennessy is a Canadian actress and musician best known for her leading roles on the television series Law & Order and Crossing Jordan.
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E.
Linda Hamilton
Linda Hamilton is an American actress best known for her iconic role as Sarah Connor in the "Terminator" film series.
- 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: Kelly McGillis Target entity description: Kelly McGillis is an American actress best known for her roles in films such as "Top Gun" and "Witness," where she often portrayed strong, complex female characters.
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A.
Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler is an American actress and former model best known for her role as the elf Arwen in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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B.
Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah is an American actress best known for her roles in films such as "Splash," "Blade Runner," and "Kill Bill."
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C.
Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder is an American actress known for her roles in films like "Beetlejuice," "Edward Scissorhands," and "Girl, Interrupted," as well as the TV series "Stranger Things."
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D.
Jill Hennessy
Jill Hennessy is a Canadian actress and musician best known for her leading roles on the television series Law & Order and Crossing Jordan.
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E.
Linda Hamilton
Linda Hamilton is an American actress best known for her iconic role as Sarah Connor in the "Terminator" film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination
ⓘ
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama nomination ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1957-07-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Juilliard School
ⓘ
Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Conservatory Theatre
|
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| familyName | McGillis ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
horror film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | Kelly ⓘ |
| hairColor | blonde ⓘ |
| hasChild | two daughters ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying strong, complex female characters ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| laterReligion | Quaker ⓘ |
| name | Kelly McGillis ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Made in Heaven
ⓘ
Stake Land ⓘ The Accused ⓘ The House on Carroll Street ⓘ The Innkeepers ⓘ Top Gun ⓘ We Are What We Are ⓘ Witness ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Newport Beach, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Newport Beach
|
| portrayed |
Charlie Blackwood in Top Gun
ⓘ
Kathryn Murphy in The Accused ⓘ
linked to:
The Accused
Rachel Lapp in Witness ⓘ |
| religion | raised Baptist ⓘ |
| residence |
North Carolina, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina
|
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| spouse |
Boyd Black
ⓘ
Fred Tillman ⓘ |
| workedAs |
acting teacher
ⓘ
drug and alcohol counselor ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1983–present ⓘ |
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: Kelly McGillis Description of subject: Kelly McGillis is an American actress best known for her roles in films such as "Top Gun" and "Witness," where she often portrayed strong, complex female characters.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.