Eleanor McCoy
E161186
Eleanor McCoy is an American actress and the mother of film and television star Sanaa Lathan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eleanor McCoy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1407267 — 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: Eleanor McCoy Context triple: [Sanaa Lathan, parent, Eleanor McCoy]
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A.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
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B.
Gladys Louise Smith
Gladys Louise Smith is the birth name of Mary Pickford, the pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress and producer known as "America's Sweetheart."
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C.
Robin Stokes
Robin Stokes is one of the four central women in Terry McMillan’s novel and its film adaptation "Waiting to Exhale," known for navigating love, career, and friendship in 1990s Phoenix.
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D.
Belle Ewart
Belle Ewart is a small lakeside community on the western shore of Lake Simcoe in Ontario, Canada.
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E.
Eleanor Baum
Eleanor Baum is an American electrical engineer and pioneering academic leader recognized for breaking gender barriers in engineering education and professional societies.
- 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: Eleanor McCoy Target entity description: Eleanor McCoy is an American actress and the mother of film and television star Sanaa Lathan.
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A.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
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B.
Gladys Louise Smith
Gladys Louise Smith is the birth name of Mary Pickford, the pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress and producer known as "America's Sweetheart."
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C.
Robin Stokes
Robin Stokes is one of the four central women in Terry McMillan’s novel and its film adaptation "Waiting to Exhale," known for navigating love, career, and friendship in 1990s Phoenix.
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D.
Belle Ewart
Belle Ewart is a small lakeside community on the western shore of Lake Simcoe in Ontario, Canada.
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E.
Eleanor Baum
Eleanor Baum is an American electrical engineer and pioneering academic leader recognized for breaking gender barriers in engineering education and professional societies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
ⓘ
actress ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child | Sanaa Lathan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Sanaa Lathan
ⓘ
Stan Lathan ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| motherOf | Sanaa Lathan ⓘ |
| notableWork | stage acting ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Stan Lathan ⓘ |
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: Eleanor McCoy Description of subject: Eleanor McCoy is an American actress and the mother of film and television star Sanaa Lathan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.