Polly Holliday
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Polly Holliday is an American actress best known for her Emmy-nominated role as the wisecracking waitress Flo on the 1970s sitcom "Alice" and its spin-off "Flo."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polly Holliday canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6125153 — 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: Polly Holliday Context triple: [Alice (TV series), starring, Polly Holliday]
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A.
Blue Mitchell
Blue Mitchell was an American jazz trumpeter known for his lyrical hard bop style and work with leading ensembles in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Jan Howard
Jan Howard was an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star known for hits like "Evil on Your Mind" and her collaborations with Bill Anderson.
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C.
Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee was an American actress and teen idol of the late 1950s and 1960s, best known for films like "Gidget" and "A Summer Place."
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D.
Patsy Louise Neal
Patsy Louise Neal, better known as Patricia Neal, was an American actress acclaimed for her powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including her Oscar-winning role in "Hud."
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E.
Amy Lou Adams
Amy Lou Adams is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatile performances in both comedic and dramatic films, including roles in "Enchanted," "American Hustle," and "Arrival."
- 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: Polly Holliday Target entity description: Polly Holliday is an American actress best known for her Emmy-nominated role as the wisecracking waitress Flo on the 1970s sitcom "Alice" and its spin-off "Flo."
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A.
Blue Mitchell
Blue Mitchell was an American jazz trumpeter known for his lyrical hard bop style and work with leading ensembles in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Jan Howard
Jan Howard was an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star known for hits like "Evil on Your Mind" and her collaborations with Bill Anderson.
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C.
Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee was an American actress and teen idol of the late 1950s and 1960s, best known for films like "Gidget" and "A Summer Place."
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D.
Patsy Louise Neal
Patsy Louise Neal, better known as Patricia Neal, was an American actress acclaimed for her powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including her Oscar-winning role in "Hud."
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E.
Amy Lou Adams
Amy Lou Adams is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatile performances in both comedic and dramatic films, including roles in "Enchanted," "American Hustle," and "Arrival."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry
NERFINISHED
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Gloria NERFINISHED ⓘ Gloria Chaney NERFINISHED ⓘ Grace James NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Deagle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-07-02 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Holliday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| film |
Gremlins
NERFINISHED
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Mrs. Doubtfire NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cat from Outer Space NERFINISHED ⓘ The Parent Trap (1998 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Polly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
catchphrase "Kiss my grits!"
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playing Flo on the sitcom "Alice" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Polly Holliday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward | Golden Globe Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alice
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fairy Tale Theater: Goldilocks and the Three Bears NERFINISHED ⓘ Flo NERFINISHED ⓘ Gremlins NERFINISHED ⓘ Home Improvement NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Doubtfire NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cat from Outer Space NERFINISHED ⓘ The Client (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Golden Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ The Parent Trap (1998 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Jasper, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| televisionSeries |
Alice
NERFINISHED
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Flo NERFINISHED ⓘ Home Improvement NERFINISHED ⓘ The Client NERFINISHED ⓘ The Golden Girls 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: Polly Holliday Description of subject: Polly Holliday is an American actress best known for her Emmy-nominated role as the wisecracking waitress Flo on the 1970s sitcom "Alice" and its spin-off "Flo."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alice (TV series)