Paula Prentiss
E460061
Paula Prentiss is an American actress known for her tall, comedic presence in 1960s films and television, including roles in movies like "Where the Boys Are" and "The Stepford Wives."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paula Prentiss canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4623360 — 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: Paula Prentiss Context triple: [Buddy Buddy, starring, Paula Prentiss]
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A.
Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain is an American actress best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter on the television series "Mission: Impossible," for which she won multiple Primetime Emmy Awards.
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B.
Angela Richards
Angela Richards is known as one of the children of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.
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C.
Denise Crosby
Denise Crosby is an American actress best known for playing Lieutenant Tasha Yar on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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D.
Lorraine Taylor
Lorraine Taylor is known as a former spouse of musician and bandleader Ike Turner, associated with his early personal life and career period.
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E.
Tyne Daly
Tyne Daly is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful performances in television dramas, film, and theater, including her iconic role in the series "Cagney & Lacey."
- 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: Paula Prentiss Target entity description: Paula Prentiss is an American actress known for her tall, comedic presence in 1960s films and television, including roles in movies like "Where the Boys Are" and "The Stepford Wives."
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A.
Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain is an American actress best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter on the television series "Mission: Impossible," for which she won multiple Primetime Emmy Awards.
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B.
Angela Richards
Angela Richards is known as one of the children of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.
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C.
Denise Crosby
Denise Crosby is an American actress best known for playing Lieutenant Tasha Yar on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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D.
Lorraine Taylor
Lorraine Taylor is known as a former spouse of musician and bandleader Ike Turner, associated with his early personal life and career period.
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E.
Tyne Daly
Tyne Daly is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful performances in television dramas, film, and theater, including her iconic role in the series "Cagney & Lacey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
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human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1960s American cinema
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American television ⓘ |
| birthName | Paula Ragusa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-03-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Northwestern University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Ragusa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Paula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Prentiss Benjamin
NERFINISHED
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Ross Benjamin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comic timing
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tall stature ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1961 ⓘ |
| name | Paula Prentiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bachelor in Paradise
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Catch-22 (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hard Four NERFINISHED ⓘ He & She (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House NERFINISHED ⓘ In Harm’s Way NERFINISHED ⓘ Man’s Favorite Sport? NERFINISHED ⓘ Move (1970 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Packin’ It In (TV film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Black Marble NERFINISHED ⓘ The Honeymoon Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ The Parallax View NERFINISHED ⓘ The Stepford Wives NERFINISHED ⓘ The World of Henry Orient NERFINISHED ⓘ What’s New Pussycat? NERFINISHED ⓘ Where the Boys Are NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Antonio, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Richard Benjamin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Alan J. Pakula
NERFINISHED
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Katharine Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Nichols NERFINISHED ⓘ Natalie Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Sellers NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Benjamin NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Hudson 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: Paula Prentiss Description of subject: Paula Prentiss is an American actress known for her tall, comedic presence in 1960s films and television, including roles in movies like "Where the Boys Are" and "The Stepford Wives."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.