Tessie Sinahon
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Tessie Sinahon is the widow of American actor Yaphet Kotto, known for being his longtime partner and surviving spouse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tessie Sinahon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5129405 — 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: Tessie Sinahon Context triple: [Yaphet Kotto, spouse, Tessie Sinahon]
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A.
Tess Sanchez
Tess Sanchez is an American casting director and former head of casting at Fox, known for her work on numerous television series.
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B.
Helen Lasichanh
Helen Lasichanh is a Laotian-Ethiopian model, designer, and stylist known for her distinctive fashion sense and marriage to musician Pharrell Williams.
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C.
Marlene Mathias
Marlene Mathias is known as the daughter of American Olympic decathlon champion and politician Bob Mathias.
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D.
Felicia Hano
Felicia Hano is an American artistic gymnast and former elite competitor who became a standout collegiate gymnast for the UCLA Bruins.
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E.
Ethel "Sunshine" Akalino
Ethel "Sunshine" Akalino is a fictional character from the 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties," known as one of the young showgirls managed by the title character Nancy Blansky.
- 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: Tessie Sinahon Target entity description: Tessie Sinahon is the widow of American actor Yaphet Kotto, known for being his longtime partner and surviving spouse.
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A.
Tess Sanchez
Tess Sanchez is an American casting director and former head of casting at Fox, known for her work on numerous television series.
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B.
Helen Lasichanh
Helen Lasichanh is a Laotian-Ethiopian model, designer, and stylist known for her distinctive fashion sense and marriage to musician Pharrell Williams.
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C.
Marlene Mathias
Marlene Mathias is known as the daughter of American Olympic decathlon champion and politician Bob Mathias.
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D.
Felicia Hano
Felicia Hano is an American artistic gymnast and former elite competitor who became a standout collegiate gymnast for the UCLA Bruins.
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E.
Ethel "Sunshine" Akalino
Ethel "Sunshine" Akalino is a fictional character from the 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties," known as one of the young showgirls managed by the title character Nancy Blansky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widowed ⓘ |
| nationality | Filipino ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the widow of Yaphet Kotto ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Yaphet Kotto ⓘ |
| residence | Philippines ⓘ |
| spouse |
Tessie Sinahon
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Yaphet Kotto ⓘ |
| spouseCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | actor ⓘ |
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: Tessie Sinahon Description of subject: Tessie Sinahon is the widow of American actor Yaphet Kotto, known for being his longtime partner and surviving spouse.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tessie Sinahon