Jayne Houdyshell
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Jayne Houdyshell is an American stage and screen actress best known for her acclaimed work on Broadway, including a Tony Award–winning performance in "The Humans."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jayne Houdyshell canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4035340 — 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: Jayne Houdyshell Context triple: [Fish in the Dark, hasCastMember, Jayne Houdyshell]
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A.
Jayne Rowse
Jayne Rowse is a Michigan nurse and LGBT rights advocate known for challenging the state's same-sex marriage and adoption bans in the landmark DeBoer v. Snyder case.
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B.
Shiri Appleby
Shiri Appleby is an American actress best known for her lead role in the TV series "Roswell" and her later work on shows like "UnREAL."
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C.
Thea Sharrock
Thea Sharrock is a British theatre and film director known for her acclaimed stage productions and for directing the feature film "Me Before You."
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D.
Holly Faulks
Holly Faulks is known as the daughter of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
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E.
Rebecca Yeldham
Rebecca Yeldham is a film producer known for her work on acclaimed independent and international films, including the adaptation of "The Kite Runner."
- 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: Jayne Houdyshell Target entity description: Jayne Houdyshell is an American stage and screen actress best known for her acclaimed work on Broadway, including a Tony Award–winning performance in "The Humans."
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A.
Jayne Rowse
Jayne Rowse is a Michigan nurse and LGBT rights advocate known for challenging the state's same-sex marriage and adoption bans in the landmark DeBoer v. Snyder case.
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B.
Shiri Appleby
Shiri Appleby is an American actress best known for her lead role in the TV series "Roswell" and her later work on shows like "UnREAL."
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C.
Thea Sharrock
Thea Sharrock is a British theatre and film director known for her acclaimed stage productions and for directing the feature film "Me Before You."
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D.
Holly Faulks
Holly Faulks is known as the daughter of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
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E.
Rebecca Yeldham
Rebecca Yeldham is a film producer known for her work on acclaimed independent and international films, including the adaptation of "The Kite Runner."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway actor
ⓘ
actress ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
21st-century theatre
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American theatre ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Houdyshell ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | performing arts ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Jayne ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Ann Kron in Well
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linked to:
Ann Kron
Deirdre Blake in The Humans ⓘ Hattie Walker in Follies ⓘ Tony-nominated Broadway performer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Jayne Houdyshell ⓘ |
| notableAward | Tony Award ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Tony Award–winning performance in The Humans
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acclaimed character roles on Broadway ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Doll's House, Part 2
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linked to:
A Doll’s House, Part 2
Follies ⓘ Only Murders in the Building ⓘ The Humans ⓘ The Humans (film) ⓘ The Music Man ⓘ Well ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Broadway
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New York City ⓘ |
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: Jayne Houdyshell Description of subject: Jayne Houdyshell is an American stage and screen actress best known for her acclaimed work on Broadway, including a Tony Award–winning performance in "The Humans."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.