Phyllis Coates
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Phyllis Coates is an American actress best known for playing Lois Lane in the early 1950s Superman film and television adaptations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phyllis Coates canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2681395 — 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 Coates Context triple: [Lois Lane, portrayedBy, Phyllis Coates]
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A.
June Mulgrew
June Mulgrew is a New Zealand woman best known as the second wife of famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
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B.
Phyllis Holden
Phyllis Holden was an American occupational therapist best known as the first wife of longtime U.S. Senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole.
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C.
Marjorie Bowes
Marjorie Bowes was the English wife of Scottish Reformation leader John Knox, known primarily through her marriage into the prominent Protestant reformer’s life and circle.
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D.
Barbara Hancock
Barbara Hancock is an American actress and dancer best known for her role in the 1968 musical fantasy film "Finian's Rainbow."
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E.
Norma Shepherd
Norma Shepherd was the wife of renowned film composer Bernard Herrmann, known primarily in relation to his personal life.
- 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 Coates Target entity description: Phyllis Coates is an American actress best known for playing Lois Lane in the early 1950s Superman film and television adaptations.
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A.
June Mulgrew
June Mulgrew is a New Zealand woman best known as the second wife of famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
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B.
Phyllis Holden
Phyllis Holden was an American occupational therapist best known as the first wife of longtime U.S. Senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole.
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C.
Marjorie Bowes
Marjorie Bowes was the English wife of Scottish Reformation leader John Knox, known primarily through her marriage into the prominent Protestant reformer’s life and circle.
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D.
Barbara Hancock
Barbara Hancock is an American actress and dancer best known for her role in the 1968 musical fantasy film "Finian's Rainbow."
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E.
Norma Shepherd
Norma Shepherd was the wife of renowned film composer Bernard Herrmann, known primarily in relation to his personal life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Coates Description of subject: Phyllis Coates is an American actress best known for playing Lois Lane in the early 1950s Superman film and television adaptations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.