Phyllis
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Phyllis is a 1970s American television sitcom, spun off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, that stars Cloris Leachman as the widowed Phyllis Lindstrom starting a new life in San Francisco.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1384836 — 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: Phyllis Context triple: [Cloris Leachman, notableWork, Phyllis]
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A.
Phylicia
Phylicia is a feminine given name best known through American actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
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B.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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C.
Lucille
"Lucille" is a 1977 country song by Kenny Rogers that became one of his signature hits and a classic of the genre.
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D.
Lucille
Lucille is the famous black Gibson guitar closely associated with blues legend B.B. King, who named all his guitars by this name.
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E.
Peggy
Peggy is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Margaret.
- 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: Phyllis Target entity description: Phyllis is a 1970s American television sitcom, spun off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, that stars Cloris Leachman as the widowed Phyllis Lindstrom starting a new life in San Francisco.
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A.
Phylicia
Phylicia is a feminine given name best known through American actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
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B.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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C.
Lucille
"Lucille" is a 1977 country song by Kenny Rogers that became one of his signature hits and a classic of the genre.
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D.
Lucille
Lucille is the famous black Gibson guitar closely associated with blues legend B.B. King, who named all his guitars by this name.
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E.
Peggy
Peggy is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Margaret.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television sitcom
ⓘ
television spin-off ⓘ |
| audioFormat | mono ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Mary Tyler Moore Show ⓘ |
| cameraSetup | multi-camera ⓘ |
| character | Phyllis Lindstrom ⓘ |
| composer | Jerry Fielding ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter | Phyllis Lindstrom as a widow ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1975-09-11 ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1977-03-13 ⓘ |
| mainCharacterStartsNewLifeIn | San Francisco ⓘ |
| mainCharacterStatus | widowed ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 48 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 2 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastIn | 1970s ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | color ⓘ |
| producer |
David Davis
ⓘ
Ed. Weinberger ⓘ James L. Brooks ⓘ Stan Daniels ⓘ |
| productionCompany | MTM Enterprises ⓘ |
| runtimePerEpisode | 25 minutes ⓘ |
| settingLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
| spinOffFrom | The Mary Tyler Moore Show ⓘ |
| starring | Cloris Leachman ⓘ |
| themeMusicComposer | Jerry Fielding ⓘ |
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: Phyllis Description of subject: Phyllis is a 1970s American television sitcom, spun off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, that stars Cloris Leachman as the widowed Phyllis Lindstrom starting a new life in San Francisco.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Phylis