Judith Light
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Judith Light is an American actress known for her acclaimed work in television, film, and theater, including roles in series like "Who's the Boss?" and "Transparent."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Judith Light canonical | 6 |
| Shelly Pfefferman – Judith Light | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4979378 — 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: Judith Light Context triple: [Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021 film), castMember, Judith Light]
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A.
Anne McDonnell
Anne McDonnell was an American socialite best known as the first wife of industrialist Henry Ford II.
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B.
Amanda Plummer
Amanda Plummer is an American actress known for her intense, eccentric character roles in films such as "Pulp Fiction" and "The Fisher King," as well as her work on stage and television.
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C.
Jessica Walter
Jessica Walter was an American actress best known for her sharp, comedic portrayal of Lucille Bluth on the television series "Arrested Development."
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D.
Rhea Perlman
Rhea Perlman is an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the sharp-tongued waitress Carla Tortelli on the classic sitcom "Cheers."
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E.
Christine Baranski
Christine Baranski is an American actress known for her sharp-witted, sophisticated roles in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed performances in works like "The Good Wife," "Mamma Mia!," and numerous stage productions.
- 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: Judith Light Target entity description: Judith Light is an American actress known for her acclaimed work in television, film, and theater, including roles in series like "Who's the Boss?" and "Transparent."
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A.
Anne McDonnell
Anne McDonnell was an American socialite best known as the first wife of industrialist Henry Ford II.
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B.
Amanda Plummer
Amanda Plummer is an American actress known for her intense, eccentric character roles in films such as "Pulp Fiction" and "The Fisher King," as well as her work on stage and television.
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C.
Jessica Walter
Jessica Walter was an American actress best known for her sharp, comedic portrayal of Lucille Bluth on the television series "Arrested Development."
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D.
Rhea Perlman
Rhea Perlman is an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the sharp-tongued waitress Carla Tortelli on the classic sitcom "Cheers."
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E.
Christine Baranski
Christine Baranski is an American actress known for her sharp-witted, sophisticated roles in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed performances in works like "The Good Wife," "Mamma Mia!," and numerous stage productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Daytime Emmy Award
NERFINISHED
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Drama Desk Award ⓘ GLAAD Media Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedForWork |
Daytime Emmy Awards for One Life to Live
NERFINISHED
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Primetime Emmy Award for Transparent NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Other Desert Cities NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for The Assembled Parties NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Judith Ellen Light NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-02-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Carnegie Mellon School of Drama
NERFINISHED
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Carnegie Mellon University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1985 ⓘ |
| movement | LGBT rights activism ⓘ |
| name | Judith Light NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
NERFINISHED
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Lombardi NERFINISHED ⓘ One Life to Live NERFINISHED ⓘ Other Desert Cities NERFINISHED ⓘ The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story NERFINISHED ⓘ The Assembled Parties NERFINISHED ⓘ The Politician NERFINISHED ⓘ Transparent NERFINISHED ⓘ Ugly Betty NERFINISHED ⓘ Who's the Boss? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Trenton, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Robert Desiderio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionRole |
Angela Bower in Who's the Boss?
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Claire Meade in Ugly Betty NERFINISHED ⓘ Judge Elizabeth Donnelly in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ Karen Wolek in One Life to Live NERFINISHED ⓘ Shelly Pfefferman in Transparent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatreRole |
Faye in The Assembled Parties
NERFINISHED
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Marie Lombardi in Lombardi NERFINISHED ⓘ Silda Grauman in Other Desert Cities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–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: Judith Light Description of subject: Judith Light is an American actress known for her acclaimed work in television, film, and theater, including roles in series like "Who's the Boss?" and "Transparent."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shelly Pfefferman – Judith Light
subject surface form:
Poker Face (TV series)