JoBeth Williams
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JoBeth Williams is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Poltergeist," "The Big Chill," and numerous television movies and series.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| JoBeth Williams canonical | 10 |
| JoBeth Williams in Poltergeist II: The Other Side | 1 |
| Margaret JoBeth Williams | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1200549 — 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: JoBeth Williams Context triple: [Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, starring, JoBeth Williams]
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A.
Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams was an American actress best known for her role as Shirley Feeney on the hit television sitcom "Laverne & Shirley."
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B.
Lindsay Crouse
Lindsay Crouse is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including an Academy Award–nominated role in "Places in the Heart."
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C.
Tilly Foster
Tilly Foster is a small hamlet in the Town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York, known historically for its former iron mine and rural character.
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D.
Teri Garr
Teri Garr is an American actress known for her versatile performances in films such as "Young Frankenstein," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and "Tootsie."
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E.
Maud Adams
Maud Adams is a Swedish actress best known for her roles as Bond girls in the James Bond films "The Man with the Golden Gun" and "Octopussy."
- 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: JoBeth Williams Target entity description: JoBeth Williams is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Poltergeist," "The Big Chill," and numerous television movies and series.
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A.
Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams was an American actress best known for her role as Shirley Feeney on the hit television sitcom "Laverne & Shirley."
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B.
Lindsay Crouse
Lindsay Crouse is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including an Academy Award–nominated role in "Places in the Heart."
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C.
Tilly Foster
Tilly Foster is a small hamlet in the Town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York, known historically for its former iron mine and rural character.
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D.
Teri Garr
Teri Garr is an American actress known for her versatile performances in films such as "Young Frankenstein," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and "Tootsie."
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E.
Maud Adams
Maud Adams is a Swedish actress best known for her roles as Bond girls in the James Bond films "The Man with the Golden Gun" and "Octopussy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: JoBeth Williams Description of subject: JoBeth Williams is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Poltergeist," "The Big Chill," and numerous television movies and series.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Margaret JoBeth Williams
subject surface form:
Fever Pitch (2005 film)
this entity surface form:
JoBeth Williams in Poltergeist II: The Other Side