DeWanda Wise
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DeWanda Wise is an American actress known for her breakout role in the Netflix series "She's Gotta Have It" and for starring in major films such as "Jurassic World Dominion."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DeWanda Wise canonical | 3 |
| DeWanda | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3965456 — 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: DeWanda Wise Context triple: [Jurassic World Dominion, stars, DeWanda Wise]
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A.
Nicole Avant
Nicole Avant is an American film producer, former U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas, and daughter of influential music executive Clarence Avant.
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B.
Cappie Pondexter
Cappie Pondexter is an American former professional basketball player and WNBA star widely regarded as one of the league’s premier guards of her era.
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C.
Marley Shelton
Marley Shelton is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Planet Terror," "Never Been Kissed," and "Scream 4."
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D.
Laiyah Shannon Brown
Laiyah Shannon Brown is the daughter of American R&B singer Monica and former NBA player Shannon Brown.
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E.
Jaleesa Vinson
Jaleesa Vinson is a mature, independent college student and later career woman on the sitcom "A Different World," known for her no-nonsense attitude and role as a supportive friend and mentor.
- 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: DeWanda Wise Target entity description: DeWanda Wise is an American actress known for her breakout role in the Netflix series "She's Gotta Have It" and for starring in major films such as "Jurassic World Dominion."
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A.
Nicole Avant
Nicole Avant is an American film producer, former U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas, and daughter of influential music executive Clarence Avant.
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B.
Cappie Pondexter
Cappie Pondexter is an American former professional basketball player and WNBA star widely regarded as one of the league’s premier guards of her era.
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C.
Marley Shelton
Marley Shelton is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Planet Terror," "Never Been Kissed," and "Scream 4."
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D.
Laiyah Shannon Brown
Laiyah Shannon Brown is the daughter of American R&B singer Monica and former NBA player Shannon Brown.
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E.
Jaleesa Vinson
Jaleesa Vinson is a mature, independent college student and later career woman on the sitcom "A Different World," known for her no-nonsense attitude and role as a supportive friend and mentor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| castMemberOf |
Boardwalk Empire
ⓘ
Fatherhood ⓘ Jurassic World Dominion ⓘ She’s Gotta Have It ⓘ
surface form:
She's Gotta Have It (TV series)
Shots Fired ⓘ
surface form:
Shots Fired (TV series)
Someone Great ⓘ The Harder They Fall ⓘ The Twilight Zone (2019 TV series) ⓘ Underground (TV series) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
ⓘ
NYU Tisch School of the Arts ⓘ
surface form:
Tisch School of the Arts
|
| employer | Netflix ⓘ |
| familyName | Wise ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
ⓘ
performing arts ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName |
DeWanda Wise
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
DeWanda
|
| hasEthnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| industry | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
portraying Kayla Watts in Jurassic World Dominion
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portraying Nola Darling in She's Gotta Have It (TV series) ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | DeWanda Wise self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fatherhood
ⓘ
Jurassic World Dominion ⓘ She’s Gotta Have It ⓘ
surface form:
She's Gotta Have It (TV series)
Someone Great ⓘ The Harder They Fall ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
producer ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| socialMediaPlatform |
Instagram
ⓘ
Twitter, Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
Twitter
|
| spouse | Alano Miller ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
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: DeWanda Wise Description of subject: DeWanda Wise is an American actress known for her breakout role in the Netflix series "She's Gotta Have It" and for starring in major films such as "Jurassic World Dominion."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
DeWanda