Tess McGill
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Tess McGill is the ambitious, street-smart Staten Island secretary who fights to advance her career in the 1988 film "Working Girl."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tess McGill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10738061 — 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: Tess McGill Context triple: [Working Girl, character, Tess McGill]
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A.
Tess Gallagher
Tess Gallagher is an American poet, essayist, and short story writer known for her lyrical style and for her long personal and creative partnership with writer Raymond Carver.
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B.
Tess Coleman
Tess Coleman is the overworked psychiatrist mother who swaps bodies with her teenage daughter in the 2003 comedy film "Freaky Friday."
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C.
Tess Harper
Tess Harper is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including acclaimed roles in projects like "Crimes of the Heart" and "Tender Mercies."
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D.
Tess Nichols
Tess Nichols is a central character in the romantic comedy film "27 Dresses," known as the beautiful but self-centered younger sister whose engagement complicates the protagonist's love life.
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E.
Rachel Sutherland
Rachel Sutherland is a Canadian television producer and production manager, known for her work on various TV series and as the daughter of actor Donald Sutherland.
- 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: Tess McGill Target entity description: Tess McGill is the ambitious, street-smart Staten Island secretary who fights to advance her career in the 1988 film "Working Girl."
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A.
Tess Gallagher
Tess Gallagher is an American poet, essayist, and short story writer known for her lyrical style and for her long personal and creative partnership with writer Raymond Carver.
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B.
Tess Coleman
Tess Coleman is the overworked psychiatrist mother who swaps bodies with her teenage daughter in the 2003 comedy film "Freaky Friday."
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C.
Tess Harper
Tess Harper is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including acclaimed roles in projects like "Crimes of the Heart" and "Tender Mercies."
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D.
Tess Nichols
Tess Nichols is a central character in the romantic comedy film "27 Dresses," known as the beautiful but self-centered younger sister whose engagement complicates the protagonist's love life.
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E.
Rachel Sutherland
Rachel Sutherland is a Canadian television producer and production manager, known for her work on various TV series and as the daughter of actor Donald Sutherland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Working Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jack Trainer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Katherine Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Katherine Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Kevin Wade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
ambitious
ⓘ
career-driven ⓘ street-smart ⓘ working-class ⓘ |
| employer |
Katherine Parker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
investment bank (fictional) ⓘ |
| familyName | McGill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Working Girl universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Working Girl (1988 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
drama
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Tess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goal |
advance her career
ⓘ
break into the corporate world ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| industry |
corporate mergers and acquisitions
ⓘ
finance ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | rising from secretary to executive position ⓘ |
| occupation |
corporate professional
ⓘ
executive assistant ⓘ secretary ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Melanie Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | live-action film ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
Staten Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticPartner | Jack Trainer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenTimeFocus | central character arc ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
female empowerment in the workplace
ⓘ
social mobility ⓘ |
| worksFor | Wall Street firm (fictional) ⓘ |
| worksIn | Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Tess McGill Description of subject: Tess McGill is the ambitious, street-smart Staten Island secretary who fights to advance her career in the 1988 film "Working Girl."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.