Cindy Pickett
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Cindy Pickett is an American actress best known for her role as Ferris Bueller’s mother in the classic 1986 teen comedy film "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cindy Pickett canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5531913 — 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: Cindy Pickett Context triple: [Ferris Bueller's Day Off, stars, Cindy Pickett]
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A.
Cindy Henderson
Cindy Henderson is an actress best known for voicing Wednesday Addams in the 1970s animated adaptation of The Addams Family.
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B.
Cindy Morgan
Cindy Morgan is an American actress best known for her roles in the comedy film "Caddyshack" and the science fiction film "Tron."
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C.
Patti Koon
Patti Koon was the first wife of American author James A. Michener, whom he married in the 1930s before achieving his literary fame.
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D.
Diane Millstead
Diane Millstead is an Australian academic and writer best known as the former wife of comedian and satirist Barry Humphries.
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E.
Cathy Shumway
Cathy Shumway is a character from the satirical 1970s television soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
- 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: Cindy Pickett Target entity description: Cindy Pickett is an American actress best known for her role as Ferris Bueller’s mother in the classic 1986 teen comedy film "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off."
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A.
Cindy Henderson
Cindy Henderson is an actress best known for voicing Wednesday Addams in the 1970s animated adaptation of The Addams Family.
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B.
Cindy Morgan
Cindy Morgan is an American actress best known for her roles in the comedy film "Caddyshack" and the science fiction film "Tron."
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C.
Patti Koon
Patti Koon was the first wife of American author James A. Michener, whom he married in the 1930s before achieving his literary fame.
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D.
Diane Millstead
Diane Millstead is an Australian academic and writer best known as the former wife of comedian and satirist Barry Humphries.
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E.
Cathy Shumway
Cathy Shumway is a character from the satirical 1970s television soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
DeepStar Six
NERFINISHED
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off NERFINISHED ⓘ Guiding Light NERFINISHED ⓘ Sleepwalkers NERFINISHED ⓘ Son in Law NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Elsewhere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coStarredWith |
Alan Ruck
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brian Dennehy NERFINISHED ⓘ Carla Gugino NERFINISHED ⓘ Lyman Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Hamill NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthew Broderick NERFINISHED ⓘ Mia Sara NERFINISHED ⓘ Pauly Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-04-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Pickett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | teen comedy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Cindy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter with Lyman Ward
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son with Lyman Ward ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Cindy Pickett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying Ferris Bueller's mother in Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⓘ |
| notableWork |
DeepStar Six
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ferris Bueller's Day Off NERFINISHED ⓘ Guiding Light NERFINISHED ⓘ Sleepwalkers NERFINISHED ⓘ Son in Law NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Elsewhere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sand Springs, Oklahoma, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
Connie Warner in Son in Law
NERFINISHED
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Dr. Carol Novino in St. Elsewhere NERFINISHED ⓘ Joyce Collins in DeepStar Six ⓘ Julie in Guiding Light NERFINISHED ⓘ Katie Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Brady in Sleepwalkers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Lyman Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–2010s ⓘ |
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: Cindy Pickett Description of subject: Cindy Pickett is an American actress best known for her role as Ferris Bueller’s mother in the classic 1986 teen comedy film "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.