Ellen Foley
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Ellen Foley is an American singer and actress best known for her powerful vocals on Meat Loaf’s hit “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” and her work in rock music and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ellen Foley canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6976186 — 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: Ellen Foley Context triple: [Meat Loaf, associatedAct, Ellen Foley]
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A.
Joanne Dru
Joanne Dru was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in classic Westerns and dramas of the 1940s and 1950s.
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B.
Lisa Loring
Lisa Loring was an American actress best known for originating the role of Wednesday Addams as a child in the 1960s television adaptation of The Addams Family.
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C.
Elaine Baylor
Elaine Baylor is known as the wife of legendary Basketball Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor.
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D.
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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E.
Kathy O'Hare
Kathy O'Hare is known primarily as the daughter of famed World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient Edward "Butch" O'Hare.
- 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: Ellen Foley Target entity description: Ellen Foley is an American singer and actress best known for her powerful vocals on Meat Loaf’s hit “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” and her work in rock music and television.
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A.
Joanne Dru
Joanne Dru was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in classic Westerns and dramas of the 1940s and 1950s.
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B.
Lisa Loring
Lisa Loring was an American actress best known for originating the role of Wednesday Addams as a child in the 1960s television adaptation of The Addams Family.
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C.
Elaine Baylor
Elaine Baylor is known as the wife of legendary Basketball Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor.
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D.
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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E.
Kathy O'Hare
Kathy O'Hare is known primarily as the daughter of famed World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient Edward "Butch" O'Hare.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ rock musician ⓘ |
| artisticDiscipline |
acting
ⓘ
singing ⓘ |
| contributedVocalsTo | Paradise by the Dashboard Light ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Foley ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
music ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Ellen ⓘ |
| hasAudience |
rock music fans
ⓘ
television viewers ⓘ |
| hasGenreInfluence |
rock and roll
ⓘ
theatrical rock ⓘ |
| hasMusicalRole |
backing vocalist
ⓘ
lead vocalist ⓘ |
| hasNotableCollaboration |
Jim Steinman
ⓘ
Meat Loaf ⓘ |
| hasPerformanceType |
live performance
ⓘ
studio recording ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
music journalism articles
ⓘ
television industry coverage ⓘ |
| knownFor |
powerful rock vocals
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television acting roles ⓘ work with Meat Loaf ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance | voice ⓘ |
| name | Ellen Foley ⓘ |
| notableFor | collaborations in rock music ⓘ |
| notableWork | Paradise by the Dashboard Light ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| performedWith | Meat Loaf ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| recordingRole | female vocalist on Paradise by the Dashboard Light ⓘ |
| vocalType | powerful vocals ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City (historical association)
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City (historical/working base)
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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: Ellen Foley Description of subject: Ellen Foley is an American singer and actress best known for her powerful vocals on Meat Loaf’s hit “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” and her work in rock music and television.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.