Ellen Shipley
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Ellen Shipley is an American songwriter and singer best known for co-writing several major pop hits in the 1980s, including Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place on Earth.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ellen Shipley canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20652136 — 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: Ellen Shipley Context triple: [Heaven Is a Place on Earth, writer, Ellen Shipley]
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A.
Belinda Blair
Belinda Blair is a fictional actress character in the farcical stage play-within-a-play at the center of Michael Frayn’s comedy "Noises Off."
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B.
Katherine McKinley
Katherine McKinley was the daughter of U.S. President William McKinley and First Lady Ida Saxton McKinley, who died in childhood and is remembered primarily in the context of her parents' lives.
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C.
Dawn Clark Netsch
Dawn Clark Netsch was an American lawyer, law professor, and pioneering Illinois politician who became the first woman elected to statewide executive office in Illinois as comptroller and was known for her advocacy of government ethics and tax reform.
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D.
Susan Janet Ballion
Susan Janet Ballion is the English singer, songwriter, and frontwoman of the influential post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees, best known by her stage name Siouxsie Sioux.
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E.
Christine Ellen Seaver
Christine Ellen Seaver is the full name of Chrissy Seaver, the youngest daughter character from the American television sitcom "Growing Pains."
- 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: Ellen Shipley Target entity description: Ellen Shipley is an American songwriter and singer best known for co-writing several major pop hits in the 1980s, including Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place on Earth.”
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A.
Belinda Blair
Belinda Blair is a fictional actress character in the farcical stage play-within-a-play at the center of Michael Frayn’s comedy "Noises Off."
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B.
Katherine McKinley
Katherine McKinley was the daughter of U.S. President William McKinley and First Lady Ida Saxton McKinley, who died in childhood and is remembered primarily in the context of her parents' lives.
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C.
Dawn Clark Netsch
Dawn Clark Netsch was an American lawyer, law professor, and pioneering Illinois politician who became the first woman elected to statewide executive office in Illinois as comptroller and was known for her advocacy of government ethics and tax reform.
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D.
Susan Janet Ballion
Susan Janet Ballion is the English singer, songwriter, and frontwoman of the influential post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees, best known by her stage name Siouxsie Sioux.
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E.
Christine Ellen Seaver
Christine Ellen Seaver is the full name of Chrissy Seaver, the youngest daughter character from the American television sitcom "Growing Pains."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.