Phoebe Cates
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Phoebe Cates is an American former actress best known for her roles in 1980s films such as "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Gremlins," who later retired from acting to focus on her family and other pursuits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phoebe Cates canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8184518 — 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: Phoebe Cates Context triple: [Kevin Kline, spouse, Phoebe Cates]
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A.
Alicia Witt
Alicia Witt is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist known for her roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Mr. Holland's Opus," "Dune," and "The Walking Dead."
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B.
Jami Gertz
Jami Gertz is an American actress known for her roles in 1980s films and television series, including standout performances in movies like "The Lost Boys" and "Quicksilver."
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C.
Lauren Holly
Lauren Holly is an American-Canadian actress best known for her roles in films like "Dumb and Dumber" and the TV series "NCIS."
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D.
Kristy McNichol
Kristy McNichol is an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role on the TV drama "Family" and her work in films like "Little Darlings" and "Only When I Laugh."
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E.
Ally Sheedy
Ally Sheedy is an American actress and author best known as a member of the 1980s "Brat Pack," with notable roles in films such as The Breakfast Club and WarGames.
- 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: Phoebe Cates Target entity description: Phoebe Cates is an American former actress best known for her roles in 1980s films such as "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Gremlins," who later retired from acting to focus on her family and other pursuits.
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A.
Alicia Witt
Alicia Witt is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist known for her roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Mr. Holland's Opus," "Dune," and "The Walking Dead."
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B.
Jami Gertz
Jami Gertz is an American actress known for her roles in 1980s films and television series, including standout performances in movies like "The Lost Boys" and "Quicksilver."
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C.
Lauren Holly
Lauren Holly is an American-Canadian actress best known for her roles in films like "Dumb and Dumber" and the TV series "NCIS."
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D.
Kristy McNichol
Kristy McNichol is an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role on the TV drama "Family" and her work in films like "Little Darlings" and "Only When I Laugh."
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E.
Ally Sheedy
Ally Sheedy is an American actress and author best known as a member of the 1980s "Brat Pack," with notable roles in films such as The Breakfast Club and WarGames.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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boutique store ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| birthName | Phoebe Belle Cates ⓘ |
| business | Blue Tree ⓘ |
| child |
Greta Kline
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Owen Kline ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-07-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Juilliard School (dropped out)
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Professional Children’s School ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Chinese-Filipino descent
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Russian-Jewish descent ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
horror comedy film
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teen comedy film ⓘ |
| hairColor | dark brown ⓘ |
| knownFor |
iconic pool scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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roles in 1980s teen and fantasy films ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| location |
Madison Avenue, New York City
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linked to:
Madison Avenue
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| name | Phoebe Cates ⓘ |
| notableEvent | largely retired from acting in the mid-1990s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Drop Dead Fred
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linked to:
Drop Dead Fred (1991 film)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ Gremlins ⓘ Gremlins 2: The New Batch ⓘ Paradise ⓘ Princess Caraboo ⓘ Private School ⓘ Shag ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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businessperson ⓘ model ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| reasonForRetirement | to focus on family ⓘ |
| relative | Joe Cates ⓘ |
| religion | raised Jewish ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| returnedToActing | appeared in The Anniversary Party (2001) ⓘ |
| spouse |
Kevin Kline
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Phoebe Cates ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980–1994 ⓘ |
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: Phoebe Cates Description of subject: Phoebe Cates is an American former actress best known for her roles in 1980s films such as "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Gremlins," who later retired from acting to focus on her family and other pursuits.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.