Debra Steagal
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Debra Steagal is known as the former spouse of American actor Peter Scolari, who gained fame for his roles in television series such as "Bosom Buddies" and "Newhart."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Debra Steagal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7130113 — 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: Debra Steagal Context triple: [Peter Scolari, spouse, Debra Steagal]
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A.
Debra Hayward
Debra Hayward is a British film producer known for her work on major feature films, including the acclaimed musical adaptation "Les Misérables" (2012).
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B.
Deanna Oliver
Deanna Oliver is an American screenwriter and voice actress best known for co-writing the 1995 live-action/CGI family film "Casper."
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C.
Debra Oswald
Debra Oswald is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and novelist best known as the creator and head writer of the television series "Offspring."
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D.
Debra Marshall
Debra Marshall is an American former professional wrestling valet, actress, and model best known for her appearances in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name Debra.
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E.
Deanna Dunagan
Deanna Dunagan is an American actress best known for her Tony Award–winning performance in the Broadway play "August: Osage County" and for her role in the horror film "The Visit."
- 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: Debra Steagal Target entity description: Debra Steagal is known as the former spouse of American actor Peter Scolari, who gained fame for his roles in television series such as "Bosom Buddies" and "Newhart."
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A.
Debra Hayward
Debra Hayward is a British film producer known for her work on major feature films, including the acclaimed musical adaptation "Les Misérables" (2012).
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B.
Deanna Oliver
Deanna Oliver is an American screenwriter and voice actress best known for co-writing the 1995 live-action/CGI family film "Casper."
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C.
Debra Oswald
Debra Oswald is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and novelist best known as the creator and head writer of the television series "Offspring."
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D.
Debra Marshall
Debra Marshall is an American former professional wrestling valet, actress, and model best known for her appearances in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name Debra.
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E.
Deanna Dunagan
Deanna Dunagan is an American actress best known for her Tony Award–winning performance in the Broadway play "August: Osage County" and for her role in the horror film "The Visit."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a former spouse of Peter Scolari ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bosom Buddies
ⓘ
Newhart ⓘ
linked to:
"Newhart"
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| spouse |
Debra Steagal
ⓘ
Peter Scolari ⓘ |
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: Debra Steagal Description of subject: Debra Steagal is known as the former spouse of American actor Peter Scolari, who gained fame for his roles in television series such as "Bosom Buddies" and "Newhart."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Debra Steagal