Sharon Lawrence
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Sharon Lawrence is an American actress best known for her Emmy-nominated role as Assistant District Attorney Sylvia Costas on the television drama "NYPD Blue."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sharon Lawrence canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5589241 — 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: Sharon Lawrence Context triple: [NYPD Blue, starredActor, Sharon Lawrence]
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A.
Lorraine Bailey
Lorraine Bailey was the proprietor of the historic Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, later known as the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and now part of the National Civil Rights Museum.
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B.
Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley Ann Warren is an American actress and singer known for her work in film, television, and musical theater, including prominent roles in 1960s musicals and later acclaimed performances in movies and TV series.
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C.
Debbi Morgan
Debbi Morgan is an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as Angie Hubbard on the soap opera "All My Children" and for her work in film and television spanning several decades.
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D.
Tamara Tunie
Tamara Tunie is an American actress and director best known for her long-running role as medical examiner Melinda Warner on the television series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
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E.
Joan Allen
Joan Allen is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in dramas and political thrillers.
- 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: Sharon Lawrence Target entity description: Sharon Lawrence is an American actress best known for her Emmy-nominated role as Assistant District Attorney Sylvia Costas on the television drama "NYPD Blue."
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A.
Lorraine Bailey
Lorraine Bailey was the proprietor of the historic Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, later known as the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and now part of the National Civil Rights Museum.
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B.
Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley Ann Warren is an American actress and singer known for her work in film, television, and musical theater, including prominent roles in 1960s musicals and later acclaimed performances in movies and TV series.
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C.
Debbi Morgan
Debbi Morgan is an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as Angie Hubbard on the soap opera "All My Children" and for her work in film and television spanning several decades.
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D.
Tamara Tunie
Tamara Tunie is an American actress and director best known for her long-running role as medical examiner Melinda Warner on the television series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
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E.
Joan Allen
Joan Allen is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in dramas and political thrillers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | NYPD Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Sharon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasActedIn |
A Friend's Betrayal
NERFINISHED
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Aftershock: Earthquake in New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Atomic Twister NERFINISHED ⓘ Blue Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ Desperate Housewives NERFINISHED ⓘ Die, Mommie, Die! NERFINISHED ⓘ Drop Dead Diva NERFINISHED ⓘ Dynasty (2017 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Five Desperate Hours NERFINISHED ⓘ Grey's Anatomy NERFINISHED ⓘ Ladies Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Black Book NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle of Nowhere NERFINISHED ⓘ NYPD Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ One Tree Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen Sugar NERFINISHED ⓘ Rizzoli & Isles NERFINISHED ⓘ Shameless NERFINISHED ⓘ The After NERFINISHED ⓘ The Christmas House NERFINISHED ⓘ The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls NERFINISHED ⓘ The Line NERFINISHED ⓘ The Only Thrill NERFINISHED ⓘ The Perfect Neighbor NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ranch NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shaggy Dog (2006 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Uninvited (1996 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Unspoken Truth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | role as Assistant District Attorney Sylvia Costas on NYPD Blue ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Sharon Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | Sylvia Costas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | NYPD Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Angeles
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New York City ⓘ |
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: Sharon Lawrence Description of subject: Sharon Lawrence is an American actress best known for her Emmy-nominated role as Assistant District Attorney Sylvia Costas on the television drama "NYPD Blue."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.