Phyllis Logan
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Phyllis Logan is a Scottish actress best known for her award-winning film and television roles, including her portrayal of housekeeper Mrs. Hughes in the series "Downton Abbey."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phyllis Logan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5861706 — 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: Phyllis Logan Context triple: [Another Time, Another Place (1983 film), starring, Phyllis Logan]
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A.
Phyllis Kirk
Phyllis Kirk was an American actress best known for her roles in 1950s film noir and horror, including the classic 3D film "House of Wax."
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B.
Meryl Burbank
Meryl Burbank is a central character in the film "The Truman Show," portrayed as Truman's wife who secretly works as an actress complicit in the fabricated reality surrounding his life.
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C.
Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush is an American actress best known for her work in mid-20th-century film and television, including prominent roles in dramas and science fiction classics.
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D.
Phyllis Haver
Phyllis Haver was an American silent film actress best known for her vivacious screen presence and her role as Roxie Hart in the 1927 film adaptation of "Chicago."
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E.
Frances Bavier
Frances Bavier was an American actress best known for her portrayal of the warm but no-nonsense Aunt Bee on the classic television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show."
- 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: Phyllis Logan Target entity description: Phyllis Logan is a Scottish actress best known for her award-winning film and television roles, including her portrayal of housekeeper Mrs. Hughes in the series "Downton Abbey."
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A.
Phyllis Kirk
Phyllis Kirk was an American actress best known for her roles in 1950s film noir and horror, including the classic 3D film "House of Wax."
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B.
Meryl Burbank
Meryl Burbank is a central character in the film "The Truman Show," portrayed as Truman's wife who secretly works as an actress complicit in the fabricated reality surrounding his life.
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C.
Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush is an American actress best known for her work in mid-20th-century film and television, including prominent roles in dramas and science fiction classics.
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D.
Phyllis Haver
Phyllis Haver was an American silent film actress best known for her vivacious screen presence and her role as Roxie Hart in the 1927 film adaptation of "Chicago."
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E.
Frances Bavier
Frances Bavier was an American actress best known for her portrayal of the warm but no-nonsense Aunt Bee on the classic television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| almaMater | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Another Time, Another Place (1983 film)
NERFINISHED
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Downton Abbey (2019 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Downton Abbey (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Downton Abbey: A New Era NERFINISHED ⓘ Girlfriends (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Good Omens (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Lovejoy (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Secrets & Lies (1996 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Karma Hospital (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
NERFINISHED
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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedForWork |
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Another Time, Another Place
NERFINISHED
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Screen Actors Guild Award for Ensemble in a Drama Series for Downton Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Elsie Hughes
NERFINISHED
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Mrs. Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedInWork |
Lady Jane Felsham in Lovejoy
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Mrs. Hughes in Downton Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish people ⓘ |
| familyName | Logan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Phyllis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | one son ⓘ |
| knownFor | portrayal of housekeeper Mrs. Hughes in Downton Abbey ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Phyllis Logan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Another Time, Another Place
NERFINISHED
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Downton Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Girlfriends NERFINISHED ⓘ Good Omens NERFINISHED ⓘ Lovejoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Secrets & Lies NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Karma Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouse | Kevin McNally NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | late 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: Phyllis Logan Description of subject: Phyllis Logan is a Scottish actress best known for her award-winning film and television roles, including her portrayal of housekeeper Mrs. Hughes in the series "Downton Abbey."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Another Time, Another Place (1983 film)