Patricia Smith
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Patricia Smith was an American actress known for her numerous film and television roles from the 1950s through the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patricia Smith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10354979 — 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: Patricia Smith Context triple: [Save the Tiger, starring, Patricia Smith]
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A.
C. D. Wright
C. D. Wright was an American poet known for her innovative, genre-blurring work that often explored place, justice, and the voices of marginalized communities.
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B.
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate known for exploring themes of memory, race, and the American South.
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C.
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange was an American playwright, poet, and Black feminist best known for her groundbreaking choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf."
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D.
Charles B. Wright
Charles B. Wright was a 19th-century American businessman and railroad executive best known for leading the early development and expansion of the Northern Pacific Railway.
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E.
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez is an influential American poet, playwright, and activist whose work and teaching have been central to Black Arts and Black feminist literary movements.
- 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: Patricia Smith Target entity description: Patricia Smith was an American actress known for her numerous film and television roles from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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A.
C. D. Wright
C. D. Wright was an American poet known for her innovative, genre-blurring work that often explored place, justice, and the voices of marginalized communities.
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B.
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate known for exploring themes of memory, race, and the American South.
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C.
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange was an American playwright, poet, and Black feminist best known for her groundbreaking choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf."
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D.
Charles B. Wright
Charles B. Wright was a 19th-century American businessman and railroad executive best known for leading the early development and expansion of the Northern Pacific Railway.
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E.
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez is an influential American poet, playwright, and activist whose work and teaching have been central to Black Arts and Black feminist literary movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
stage ⓘ television ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Patricia ⓘ |
| industry | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
motion picture
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Patricia Smith ⓘ |
| notableFor |
numerous character roles in American television
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supporting roles in American films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Barnaby Jones (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Barnaby Jones
Columbo (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Columbo
Gunsmoke (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Gunsmoke
Perry Mason (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Perry Mason
Save the Tiger ⓘ The Bachelor Party ⓘ The Bad Seed (television adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
The Bad Seed
The Defenders (TV series) ⓘ The Fugitive (TV series) ⓘ The Prisoner of Second Avenue ⓘ The Rockford Files (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Rockford Files
The Spirit of St. Louis ⓘ The Streets of San Francisco (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Streets of San Francisco
The Twilight Zone (TV series) ⓘ The Way We Were ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workPeriodEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| workPeriodStart | 1950s ⓘ |
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: Patricia Smith Description of subject: Patricia Smith was an American actress known for her numerous film and television roles from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.