Tessa Dahl
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Tessa Dahl is a British author and former actress, known for her novels and as the daughter of writer Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tessa Dahl canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9748611 — 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: Tessa Dahl Context triple: [Ophelia Dahl, sibling, Tessa Dahl]
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A.
Lissa Evans
Lissa Evans is a British author and former television director and producer, known for her witty, character-driven novels for both adults and children.
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B.
Jane Nugent
Jane Nugent is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals, including historical or contemporary figures, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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C.
Jane Nugent
Jane Nugent was the wife of influential Irish statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke, known primarily through her association with his life and career.
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D.
Tamsyn Muir
Tamsyn Muir is a New Zealand author best known for her Locked Tomb series, which blends science fantasy, necromancy, and dark humor.
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E.
Julie Herrod
Julie Herrod is an American actress best known for her role as the young neighbor Gloria in the 1967 suspense film "Wait Until Dark."
- 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: Tessa Dahl Target entity description: Tessa Dahl is a British author and former actress, known for her novels and as the daughter of writer Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal.
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A.
Lissa Evans
Lissa Evans is a British author and former television director and producer, known for her witty, character-driven novels for both adults and children.
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B.
Jane Nugent
Jane Nugent is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals, including historical or contemporary figures, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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C.
Jane Nugent
Jane Nugent was the wife of influential Irish statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke, known primarily through her association with his life and career.
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D.
Tamsyn Muir
Tamsyn Muir is a New Zealand author best known for her Locked Tomb series, which blends science fantasy, necromancy, and dark humor.
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E.
Julie Herrod
Julie Herrod is an American actress best known for her role as the young neighbor Gloria in the 1967 suspense film "Wait Until Dark."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| basedOn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| childOf |
Patricia Neal
ⓘ
Roald Dahl ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1957-04-11 ⓘ |
| familyName | Dahl ⓘ |
| father | Roald Dahl ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
ⓘ
fiction ⓘ |
| givenName |
Chantal Sophia
ⓘ
linked to:
Chantal
|
| hasEthnicity | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Patricia Neal ⓘ |
| name | Tessa Dahl ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Patricia Neal
ⓘ
Roald Dahl ⓘ Sophie Dahl ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gwenda and the Animals
ⓘ
School Can Wait ⓘ The Same But Different ⓘ Working For Love ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
author ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Clover Stroud
ⓘ
Luke Kelly ⓘ Ned Donovan ⓘ Sophie Dahl ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
ⓘ
Oxford ⓘ Oxfordshire ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sibling |
Lucy Dahl
ⓘ
Neal Dahl ⓘ
linked to:
Theo Dahl
Olivia Dahl ⓘ Ophelia Dahl ⓘ Theo Dahl ⓘ |
| spouse |
James Kelly
ⓘ
Julian Holloway ⓘ Patrick Donovan ⓘ
linked to:
Ned Donovan
|
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: Tessa Dahl Description of subject: Tessa Dahl is a British author and former actress, known for her novels and as the daughter of writer Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.