Sylvia Neary
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Sylvia Neary is a fictional character in the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," depicted as one of Roy Neary's children.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sylvia Neary canonical | 2 |
| Silvia Neary | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303576 — 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: Sylvia Neary Context triple: [Roy Neary, hasChild, Sylvia Neary]
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A.
Sylvia Shemwell
Sylvia Shemwell was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a founding member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded with and backed major artists such as Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley.
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B.
Maureen Earl
Maureen Earl is best known as the wife of American novelist Clifford Irving, who gained notoriety for his fraudulent "autobiography" of Howard Hughes.
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C.
Sylvia Lucas
Sylvia Lucas is a South African politician who served as Premier of the Northern Cape province.
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D.
Eileen Shearer
Eileen Shearer is a political figure best known for founding the American Independent Party in the United States.
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E.
Joanne Horton
Joanne Horton was the wife of H. R. Haldeman, a prominent aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
- 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: Sylvia Neary Target entity description: Sylvia Neary is a fictional character in the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," depicted as one of Roy Neary's children.
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A.
Sylvia Shemwell
Sylvia Shemwell was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a founding member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded with and backed major artists such as Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley.
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B.
Maureen Earl
Maureen Earl is best known as the wife of American novelist Clifford Irving, who gained notoriety for his fraudulent "autobiography" of Howard Hughes.
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C.
Sylvia Lucas
Sylvia Lucas is a South African politician who served as Premier of the Northern Cape province.
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D.
Eileen Shearer
Eileen Shearer is a political figure best known for founding the American Independent Party in the United States.
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E.
Joanne Horton
Joanne Horton was the wife of H. R. Haldeman, a prominent aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Steven Spielberg ⓘ |
| familyName | Neary ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
drama film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName | Sylvia ⓘ |
| hasFictionalNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasFictionalParent | Roy Neary ⓘ |
| hasFirstNameInUniverse | Sylvia ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasLastNameInUniverse | Neary ⓘ |
| hasParent | Roy Neary ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Roy Neary ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Brad Neary
ⓘ
Toby Neary ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | child of protagonist ⓘ |
| partOfCastOfCharacters | Neary family ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | live-action film ⓘ |
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: Sylvia Neary Description of subject: Sylvia Neary is a fictional character in the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," depicted as one of Roy Neary's children.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
linked to: Sylvia Neary