Helen Tasker
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Helen Tasker is a central character in the action-comedy film "True Lies," portrayed as the unsuspecting wife of a secret agent whose ordinary life is upended by her husband's covert world of espionage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Helen Tasker canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4441005 — 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: Helen Tasker Context triple: [True Lies, character, Helen Tasker]
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A.
Helen Wright
Helen Wright is a wealthy, emotionally volatile socialite who becomes romantically entangled with a young violin prodigy in the film "Humoresque."
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B.
Helen Gibbins
Helen Gibbins is the longtime wife of British comedian, actor, and writer Michael Palin, known for their enduring marriage that began before his Monty Python fame.
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C.
Helen Morris
Helen Morris is an American book editor and the longtime wife of acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese.
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D.
Helen Willis
Helen Willis is a central character on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," known as Louise Jefferson’s close friend and one half of the show’s groundbreaking interracial couple.
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E.
Helen Humes
Helen Humes was an American jazz and blues singer known for her work with Count Basie’s orchestra and her versatile, swinging vocal style.
- 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: Helen Tasker Target entity description: Helen Tasker is a central character in the action-comedy film "True Lies," portrayed as the unsuspecting wife of a secret agent whose ordinary life is upended by her husband's covert world of espionage.
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A.
Helen Wright
Helen Wright is a wealthy, emotionally volatile socialite who becomes romantically entangled with a young violin prodigy in the film "Humoresque."
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B.
Helen Gibbins
Helen Gibbins is the longtime wife of British comedian, actor, and writer Michael Palin, known for their enduring marriage that began before his Monty Python fame.
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C.
Helen Morris
Helen Morris is an American book editor and the longtime wife of acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese.
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D.
Helen Willis
Helen Willis is a central character on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," known as Louise Jefferson’s close friend and one half of the show’s groundbreaking interracial couple.
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E.
Helen Humes
Helen Humes was an American jazz and blues singer known for her work with Count Basie’s orchestra and her versatile, swinging vocal style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | Helen (character in 2023 True Lies TV series, loosely based) ⓘ |
| appearsIn | True Lies ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | spy film ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
double life
ⓘ
marital trust and deception ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacterFrom | La Totale! ⓘ |
| characterArc | transitions from bored housewife to active participant in espionage ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
brave
ⓘ
initially unaware of husband’s espionage career ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy |
Claude Zidi
ⓘ
James Cameron ⓘ |
| familyName | Tasker ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
True Lies universe
ⓘ
linked to:
True Lies
|
| firstAppearance |
True Lies (1994 film)
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linked to:
True Lies
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| genreOfWork | action comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Helen ⓘ |
| hasChild | Dana Tasker ⓘ |
| hasWeaponUse | uses firearms during climax of film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | deuteragonist ⓘ |
| notableAwardForPortrayal | Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (won by Jamie Lee Curtis) ⓘ |
| notableScene | striptease sequence in hotel room ⓘ |
| occupation | legal secretary ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jamie Lee Curtis ⓘ |
| residesIn |
Washington, D.C. (fictional depiction)
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linked to:
Washington, D.C.
|
| screenTimeImportance | major character ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Harry Tasker ⓘ |
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: Helen Tasker Description of subject: Helen Tasker is a central character in the action-comedy film "True Lies," portrayed as the unsuspecting wife of a secret agent whose ordinary life is upended by her husband's covert world of espionage.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.