Nicollette Sheridan
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Nicollette Sheridan is a British-American actress best known for her roles on the television series "Knots Landing" and "Desperate Housewives."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nicollette Sheridan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7530251 — 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: Nicollette Sheridan Context triple: [Knots Landing, starring, Nicollette Sheridan]
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A.
Gates McFadden
Gates McFadden is an American actress and choreographer best known for playing Dr. Beverly Crusher in the Star Trek franchise.
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B.
Angela Richards
Angela Richards is known as one of the children of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.
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C.
Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern is an American actress and musician best known for her roles in films like "Ragtime" and the television series "Downton Abbey."
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D.
Dana Delany
Dana Delany is an American actress best known for her acclaimed work in television dramas such as "China Beach," for which she earned multiple Primetime Emmy Awards.
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E.
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd is an American actress and former model best known for her roles in films like "The Last Picture Show" and the TV series "Moonlighting."
- 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: Nicollette Sheridan Target entity description: Nicollette Sheridan is a British-American actress best known for her roles on the television series "Knots Landing" and "Desperate Housewives."
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A.
Gates McFadden
Gates McFadden is an American actress and choreographer best known for playing Dr. Beverly Crusher in the Star Trek franchise.
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B.
Angela Richards
Angela Richards is known as one of the children of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.
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C.
Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern is an American actress and musician best known for her roles in films like "Ragtime" and the television series "Downton Abbey."
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D.
Dana Delany
Dana Delany is an American actress best known for her acclaimed work in television dramas such as "China Beach," for which she earned multiple Primetime Emmy Awards.
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E.
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd is an American actress and former model best known for her roles in films like "The Last Picture Show" and the TV series "Moonlighting."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Desperate Housewives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-11-21 ⓘ |
| familyName | Sheridan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
soap opera ⓘ television drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Nicollette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | blonde ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role as Edie Britt on Desperate Housewives
ⓘ
role as Paige Matheson on Knots Landing ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Nicollette Sheridan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British-American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedForWork | Desperate Housewives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Desperate Housewives
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dynasty (2017 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Knots Landing NERFINISHED ⓘ Noises Off NERFINISHED ⓘ Paper Dolls NERFINISHED ⓘ Spy Hard NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sure Thing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Worthing, West Sussex, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter |
Agent 3.14 in Spy Hard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sarah in The Sure Thing NERFINISHED ⓘ Taryn Blake in Paper Dolls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Sally Sheridan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Aaron Phypers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Hamlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeOfActivity | 1980s ⓘ |
| televisionRole |
Alexis Carrington in Dynasty (2017 TV series)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edie Britt in Desperate Housewives NERFINISHED ⓘ Paige Matheson in Knots Landing 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: Nicollette Sheridan Description of subject: Nicollette Sheridan is a British-American actress best known for her roles on the television series "Knots Landing" and "Desperate Housewives."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.