Samira Wiley
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Samira Wiley is an American actress best known for her acclaimed role on the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black" and her work on "The Handmaid's Tale."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samira Wiley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5018719 — 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: Samira Wiley Context triple: [Poussey Washington, portrayedBy, Samira Wiley]
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A.
Mamoudou Athie
Mamoudou Athie is a Mauritanian-American actor known for his roles in films like "The Front Runner" and "Unicorn Store" and the TV series "Sorry for Your Loss" and "Archive 81."
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B.
Nathalie Emmanuel
Nathalie Emmanuel is a British actress best known for her roles as Missandei in "Game of Thrones" and Ramsey in the "Fast & Furious" film franchise.
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C.
Jemima Kirke
Jemima Kirke is a British-American artist and actress best known for playing Jessa Johansson on the HBO series "Girls."
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D.
Lauren Cohan
Lauren Cohan is an American-British actress best known for playing Maggie Greene on the television series "The Walking Dead."
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E.
Alafair Burke
Alafair Burke is an American crime novelist, law professor, and former prosecutor known for her contemporary suspense novels and collaborations on bestselling mystery series.
- 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: Samira Wiley Target entity description: Samira Wiley is an American actress best known for her acclaimed role on the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black" and her work on "The Handmaid's Tale."
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A.
Mamoudou Athie
Mamoudou Athie is a Mauritanian-American actor known for his roles in films like "The Front Runner" and "Unicorn Store" and the TV series "Sorry for Your Loss" and "Archive 81."
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B.
Nathalie Emmanuel
Nathalie Emmanuel is a British actress best known for her roles as Missandei in "Game of Thrones" and Ramsey in the "Fast & Furious" film franchise.
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C.
Jemima Kirke
Jemima Kirke is a British-American artist and actress best known for playing Jessa Johansson on the HBO series "Girls."
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D.
Lauren Cohan
Lauren Cohan is an American-British actress best known for playing Maggie Greene on the television series "The Walking Dead."
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E.
Alafair Burke
Alafair Burke is an American crime novelist, law professor, and former prosecutor known for her contemporary suspense novels and collaborations on bestselling mystery series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInField | 21st century ⓘ |
| advocacy | LGBTQ+ rights ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | The Handmaid's Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1987-04-15 ⓘ |
| education |
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Juilliard School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Hulu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| familyName | Wiley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Samira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | black ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Annalise in Nerve
ⓘ
Detective Jessica Mathers in Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television NERFINISHED ⓘ Moira Strand in The Handmaid's Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ Poussey Washington in Orange Is the New Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanessa in Detroit ⓘ |
| knownForCharacter |
Moira Strand
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Poussey Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Samira Wiley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Detroit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nerve NERFINISHED ⓘ Orange Is the New Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television NERFINISHED ⓘ The Handmaid's Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
voice actor ⓘ |
| parent |
Christine Wiley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dennis W. Wiley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| sexualIdentity | queer ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| spouse | Lauren Morelli 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: Samira Wiley Description of subject: Samira Wiley is an American actress best known for her acclaimed role on the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black" and her work on "The Handmaid's Tale."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.