Sheila Ferris
E770427
Sheila Ferris is a British actress best known as the longtime wife of actor David Suchet, famed for portraying Hercule Poirot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheila Ferris canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8949288 — 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: Sheila Ferris Context triple: [David Suchet, spouse, Sheila Ferris]
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A.
Mary Glendinning
Mary Glendinning is a central maternal figure in Herman Melville’s novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," whose complex relationship with her son underscores the book’s themes of family, identity, and moral uncertainty.
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B.
Barbara Jefford
Barbara Jefford was a distinguished British stage and screen actress renowned for her Shakespearean performances and extensive work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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C.
Gillian Gilbert
Gillian Gilbert is an English musician and keyboardist best known as a longtime member of the influential post-punk and electronic band New Order.
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D.
Gillian Siddall
Gillian Siddall is a Canadian academic and university administrator who serves as president of Lakehead University.
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E.
Patricia Bloomfield
Patricia Bloomfield is known as the wife of renowned Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink.
- 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: Sheila Ferris Target entity description: Sheila Ferris is a British actress best known as the longtime wife of actor David Suchet, famed for portraying Hercule Poirot.
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A.
Mary Glendinning
Mary Glendinning is a central maternal figure in Herman Melville’s novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," whose complex relationship with her son underscores the book’s themes of family, identity, and moral uncertainty.
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B.
Barbara Jefford
Barbara Jefford was a distinguished British stage and screen actress renowned for her Shakespearean performances and extensive work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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C.
Gillian Gilbert
Gillian Gilbert is an English musician and keyboardist best known as a longtime member of the influential post-punk and electronic band New Order.
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D.
Gillian Siddall
Gillian Siddall is a Canadian academic and university administrator who serves as president of Lakehead University.
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E.
Patricia Bloomfield
Patricia Bloomfield is known as the wife of renowned Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Agatha Christie ⓘ |
| hasRelativeByMarriage |
Agatha Christie’s fictional character Hercule Poirot (through David Suchet’s role)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hercule Poirot
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriedTo | David Suchet ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the longtime wife of David Suchet
ⓘ
portraying Hercule Poirot ⓘ work in British acting ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
actress ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouse |
David Suchet
ⓘ
Sheila Ferris ⓘ |
| spouseOfFamousFor | Hercule Poirot role of David Suchet ⓘ |
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: Sheila Ferris Description of subject: Sheila Ferris is a British actress best known as the longtime wife of actor David Suchet, famed for portraying Hercule Poirot.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.