Peggy Reavey
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Peggy Reavey is an American painter and the first wife of filmmaker David Lynch, known for her work in visual arts and her influence during Lynch’s early creative years.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peggy Reavey canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9988257 — 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: Peggy Reavey Context triple: [David Lynch, spouse, Peggy Reavey]
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A.
Betsy McCaughey
Betsy McCaughey is an American politician, writer, and former Lieutenant Governor of New York known for her conservative commentary and opposition to certain health care reforms.
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B.
Shirley Sullivan
Shirley Sullivan is best known as the mother of American actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
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C.
Michelle Flaherty
Michelle Flaherty is a central comedic character in the American Pie film series, known for her quirky, enthusiastic personality and memorable one-liners.
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D.
Nancy O’Malley
Nancy O’Malley is an American prosecutor known for serving as the elected District Attorney of Alameda County, California, and for her work on criminal justice reform and victim advocacy.
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E.
Kathleen Brennan
Kathleen Brennan is an American songwriter and producer best known for her long-running creative partnership and marriage with musician Tom Waits, co-writing and shaping much of his later work.
- 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: Peggy Reavey Target entity description: Peggy Reavey is an American painter and the first wife of filmmaker David Lynch, known for her work in visual arts and her influence during Lynch’s early creative years.
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A.
Betsy McCaughey
Betsy McCaughey is an American politician, writer, and former Lieutenant Governor of New York known for her conservative commentary and opposition to certain health care reforms.
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B.
Shirley Sullivan
Shirley Sullivan is best known as the mother of American actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
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C.
Michelle Flaherty
Michelle Flaherty is a central comedic character in the American Pie film series, known for her quirky, enthusiastic personality and memorable one-liners.
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D.
Nancy O’Malley
Nancy O’Malley is an American prosecutor known for serving as the elected District Attorney of Alameda County, California, and for her work on criminal justice reform and victim advocacy.
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E.
Kathleen Brennan
Kathleen Brennan is an American songwriter and producer best known for her long-running creative partnership and marriage with musician Tom Waits, co-writing and shaping much of his later work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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painter ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
painting
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visual arts ⓘ |
| genre | fine art ⓘ |
| hasRelative | David Lynch ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of David Lynch
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influencing David Lynch’s early creative years ⓘ |
| notableWork | visual art ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
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visual artist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
David Lynch
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Peggy Reavey ⓘ |
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: Peggy Reavey Description of subject: Peggy Reavey is an American painter and the first wife of filmmaker David Lynch, known for her work in visual arts and her influence during Lynch’s early creative years.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.