Waites
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Waites is the family surname of actress Cassandra Harris, known for her work in film and television and her marriage to actor Pierce Brosnan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waites canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11021081 — 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: Waites Context triple: [Cassandra Harris, familyName, Waites]
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A.
Bobby Malone
Bobby Malone is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Malone, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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B.
Nat Hickey
Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
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C.
Sammy Marks
Sammy Marks was a prominent 19th-century South African industrialist and financier of Lithuanian-Jewish origin who played a key role in the development of the country’s mining and manufacturing sectors.
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D.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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E.
Stan Fink
Stan Fink is a supporting character in the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," working as a technician for the memory-erasing company Lacuna, Inc.
- 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: Waites Target entity description: Waites is the family surname of actress Cassandra Harris, known for her work in film and television and her marriage to actor Pierce Brosnan.
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A.
Bobby Malone
Bobby Malone is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Malone, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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B.
Nat Hickey
Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
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C.
Sammy Marks
Sammy Marks was a prominent 19th-century South African industrialist and financier of Lithuanian-Jewish origin who played a key role in the development of the country’s mining and manufacturing sectors.
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D.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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E.
Stan Fink
Stan Fink is a supporting character in the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," working as a technician for the memory-erasing company Lacuna, Inc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithProfessionHistorically |
minstrel
ⓘ
musician ⓘ watchman ⓘ |
| birthName | Sandra Colleen Waites ⓘ |
| etymologyRelatedTo | wait (Middle English term for watchman or minstrel) ⓘ |
| familyNameAtBirth | Waites ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Waits
ⓘ
Waytes ⓘ Weights ⓘ |
| isUsedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| knownFor |
film acting
ⓘ
television acting ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
occupational surnames ⓘ surnames from nicknames ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Cassandra Harris ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| spouse | Pierce Brosnan ⓘ |
| usedBy | Cassandra Harris ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Waites Description of subject: Waites is the family surname of actress Cassandra Harris, known for her work in film and television and her marriage to actor Pierce Brosnan.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Waites