Maura Tierney
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Maura Tierney is an American actress best known for her roles on the television series "ER" and "NewsRadio," as well as in various film and stage productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maura Tierney canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2350530 — 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: Maura Tierney Context triple: [Insomnia (2002 film), castMember, Maura Tierney]
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A.
Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress best known for her roles in the television series "Weeds" and numerous acclaimed film and stage performances.
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B.
Mireille Enos
Mireille Enos is an American actress best known for her Emmy-nominated lead role in the television series "The Killing" and prominent performances in film and television thrillers.
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C.
Dana Delany
Dana Delany is an American actress best known for her acclaimed work in television dramas such as "China Beach," for which she earned multiple Primetime Emmy Awards.
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D.
Jessica Rains
Jessica Rains is an American actress and producer, best known as the daughter of acclaimed British actor Claude Rains and for her work in film and television during the late 20th century.
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E.
Laura Linney
Laura Linney is an American actress acclaimed for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater, with notable roles in works such as "You Can Count on Me," "The Truman Show," and the series "Ozark."
- 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: Maura Tierney Target entity description: Maura Tierney is an American actress best known for her roles on the television series "ER" and "NewsRadio," as well as in various film and stage productions.
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A.
Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress best known for her roles in the television series "Weeds" and numerous acclaimed film and stage performances.
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B.
Mireille Enos
Mireille Enos is an American actress best known for her Emmy-nominated lead role in the television series "The Killing" and prominent performances in film and television thrillers.
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C.
Dana Delany
Dana Delany is an American actress best known for her acclaimed work in television dramas such as "China Beach," for which she earned multiple Primetime Emmy Awards.
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D.
Jessica Rains
Jessica Rains is an American actress and producer, best known as the daughter of acclaimed British actor Claude Rains and for her work in film and television during the late 20th century.
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E.
Laura Linney
Laura Linney is an American actress acclaimed for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater, with notable roles in works such as "You Can Count on Me," "The Truman Show," and the series "Ozark."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Maura Tierney Description of subject: Maura Tierney is an American actress best known for her roles on the television series "ER" and "NewsRadio," as well as in various film and stage productions.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Insomnia (2002 film)
subject surface form:
Abby Lockhart