Daphne Maxwell Reid
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Daphne Maxwell Reid is an American actress, model, and photographer best known for playing Aunt Vivian Banks on the sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Daphne Maxwell Reid canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4495170 — 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: Daphne Maxwell Reid Context triple: [Tim Reid, spouse, Daphne Maxwell Reid]
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A.
Diana Cavendish
Diana Cavendish is a British woman best known as the mother of film producer Jonathan Cavendish, whose life inspired the movie "Breathe."
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B.
Anabella Drummond
Anabella Drummond was a 14th-century Scottish queen consort, noted for her political influence and as the wife of King Robert III of Scotland.
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C.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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D.
Diana Sambrooke
Diana Sambrooke was an English heiress of the early 18th century who became the wife of the prominent military and political figure Lord George Sackville (later Lord George Germain).
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E.
Daphne Anderson
Daphne Anderson was a British actress known for her work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theatre, including roles in notable productions such as "The Prince and the Showgirl."
- 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: Daphne Maxwell Reid Target entity description: Daphne Maxwell Reid is an American actress, model, and photographer best known for playing Aunt Vivian Banks on the sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
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A.
Diana Cavendish
Diana Cavendish is a British woman best known as the mother of film producer Jonathan Cavendish, whose life inspired the movie "Breathe."
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B.
Anabella Drummond
Anabella Drummond was a 14th-century Scottish queen consort, noted for her political influence and as the wife of King Robert III of Scotland.
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C.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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D.
Diana Sambrooke
Diana Sambrooke was an English heiress of the early 18th century who became the wife of the prominent military and political figure Lord George Sackville (later Lord George Germain).
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E.
Daphne Anderson
Daphne Anderson was a British actress known for her work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theatre, including roles in notable productions such as "The Prince and the Showgirl."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ model ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| activeIn | United States television industry ⓘ |
| birthName | Daphne Maxwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Northwestern University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fashion modeling
ⓘ
photography ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| genre | television sitcom ⓘ |
| givenName | Daphne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Aunt Vivian Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Daphne Maxwell Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Eve
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank’s Place NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon & Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
model ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| role | Vivian Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Tim Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Daphne Maxwell Reid Description of subject: Daphne Maxwell Reid is an American actress, model, and photographer best known for playing Aunt Vivian Banks on the sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.