Shirley Sullivan
E417949
Shirley Sullivan is best known as the mother of American actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shirley Sullivan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3271758 — 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: Shirley Sullivan Context triple: [Cuba Gooding Jr., mother, Shirley Sullivan]
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A.
Maureen Callahan
Maureen Callahan is an American journalist, author, and pop culture critic known for her work with publications like the New York Post and her commentary on celebrity and cultural trends.
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B.
Mary McCleary
Mary McCleary is best known as the wife of famed American automobile executive Lee Iacocca.
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C.
Janet Leahy
Janet Leahy is an American television writer and producer known for her work on acclaimed series such as Mad Men.
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D.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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E.
Betsy McCaughey
Betsy McCaughey is an American politician, writer, and former Lieutenant Governor of New York known for her conservative commentary and opposition to certain health care reforms.
- 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: Shirley Sullivan Target entity description: Shirley Sullivan is best known as the mother of American actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
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A.
Maureen Callahan
Maureen Callahan is an American journalist, author, and pop culture critic known for her work with publications like the New York Post and her commentary on celebrity and cultural trends.
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B.
Mary McCleary
Mary McCleary is best known as the wife of famed American automobile executive Lee Iacocca.
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C.
Janet Leahy
Janet Leahy is an American television writer and producer known for her work on acclaimed series such as Mad Men.
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D.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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E.
Betsy McCaughey
Betsy McCaughey is an American politician, writer, and former Lieutenant Governor of New York known for her conservative commentary and opposition to certain health care reforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| child | Cuba Gooding Jr. ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| mother | Shirley Sullivan ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Cuba Gooding Jr. ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Cuba Gooding Sr.
ⓘ
Shirley Sullivan ⓘ |
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: Shirley Sullivan Description of subject: Shirley Sullivan is best known as the mother of American actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.