Maura West
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Maura West is an American actress best known for her long-running, Emmy-winning work in daytime soap operas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maura West canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4146572 — 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 West Context triple: [As the World Turns, notableCastMember, Maura West]
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A.
Lynn Collins
Lynn Collins is an American actress known for her roles in films such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and John Carter, as well as various television series.
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B.
Maura Tierney
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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C.
Angie Harmon
Angie Harmon is an American actress and former model best known for her starring role as detective Jane Rizzoli on the television series "Rizzoli & Isles."
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D.
Betty Gilpin
Betty Gilpin is an American actress best known for her Emmy-nominated role in the Netflix series "GLOW" and performances in films such as "The Hunt" and "The Tomorrow War."
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E.
Kate Walsh
Kate Walsh is an American actress best known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery on the television series Grey's Anatomy and its spin-off Private Practice.
- 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 West Target entity description: Maura West is an American actress best known for her long-running, Emmy-winning work in daytime soap operas.
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A.
Lynn Collins
Lynn Collins is an American actress known for her roles in films such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and John Carter, as well as various television series.
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B.
Maura Tierney
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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C.
Angie Harmon
Angie Harmon is an American actress and former model best known for her starring role as detective Jane Rizzoli on the television series "Rizzoli & Isles."
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D.
Betty Gilpin
Betty Gilpin is an American actress best known for her Emmy-nominated role in the Netflix series "GLOW" and performances in films such as "The Hunt" and "The Tomorrow War."
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E.
Kate Walsh
Kate Walsh is an American actress best known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery on the television series Grey's Anatomy and its spin-off Private Practice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
soap opera actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
NERFINISHED
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Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Maura Jo Snyder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Ava Jerome
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carly Tenney NERFINISHED ⓘ Diane Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1972-04-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Boston University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
ABC
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ABC Daytime NERFINISHED ⓘ CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ CBS Daytime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | daytime soap opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Maura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre | drama ⓘ |
| knownFor |
long-running roles in daytime soap operas
ⓘ
multiple Daytime Emmy Awards ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| name | Maura West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAwardWork |
As the World Turns
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
General Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRoleType | villainess ⓘ |
| notableWork |
As the World Turns
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
General Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ The Young and the Restless NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Springfield, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jonathan Knight
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scott DeFreitas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1995–present ⓘ |
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 West Description of subject: Maura West is an American actress best known for her long-running, Emmy-winning work in daytime soap operas.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.