Kyra Minturn Sedgwick
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Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American actress, producer, and director best known for her Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the television series "The Closer."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kyra Minturn Sedgwick canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6303781 — 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: Kyra Minturn Sedgwick Context triple: [Kyra Sedgwick, fullName, Kyra Minturn Sedgwick]
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A.
Sarah Sedgwick
Sarah Sedgwick was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as the wife of Harvard-educated lawyer and Massachusetts governor John Leverett.
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B.
Tiffani Thiessen
Tiffani Thiessen is an American actress best known for her roles on the television series "Saved by the Bell" and "Beverly Hills, 90210."
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C.
Erika Christensen
Erika Christensen is an American actress known for her roles in films like "Traffic" and "Flightplan" and the television series "Parenthood."
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D.
Lynn Collins
Lynn Collins is an American actress known for her roles in films such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and John Carter, as well as various television series.
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E.
Kate Walsh
Kate Walsh is an American actress best known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery on the television series Grey's Anatomy and its spin-off Private Practice.
- 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: Kyra Minturn Sedgwick Target entity description: Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American actress, producer, and director best known for her Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the television series "The Closer."
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A.
Sarah Sedgwick
Sarah Sedgwick was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as the wife of Harvard-educated lawyer and Massachusetts governor John Leverett.
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B.
Tiffani Thiessen
Tiffani Thiessen is an American actress best known for her roles on the television series "Saved by the Bell" and "Beverly Hills, 90210."
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C.
Erika Christensen
Erika Christensen is an American actress known for her roles in films like "Traffic" and "Flightplan" and the television series "Parenthood."
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D.
Lynn Collins
Lynn Collins is an American actress known for her roles in films such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and John Carter, as well as various television series.
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E.
Kate Walsh
Kate Walsh is an American actress best known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery on the television series Grey's Anatomy and its spin-off Private Practice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1965-08-19 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| characterIn | The Closer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed | Story of a Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Sarah Lawrence College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Southern California ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sedgwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Kyra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Sosie Bacon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Travis Bacon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Kyra Minturn Sedgwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Screen Actors Guild Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Born on the Fourth of July
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brooklyn Nine-Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ Call Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Rose White NERFINISHED ⓘ Phenomenon NERFINISHED ⓘ Singles NERFINISHED ⓘ Something to Talk About NERFINISHED ⓘ The Closer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
director ⓘ film actress ⓘ producer ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| parent |
Henry Dwight Sedgwick V
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Patricia Rosenwald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| role | Brenda Leigh Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Kevin Bacon 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: Kyra Minturn Sedgwick Description of subject: Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American actress, producer, and director best known for her Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the television series "The Closer."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.